The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)

(Nora) #1
INDEX 639

capitalism, 383, 405, 408
communism vs., 467-68, 496
imperialism and, 423, 428-29, 438, 441
Protestantism and, 174-79
in U.S., 300-301
carbon, 285-86
Cardoso, Fernando Henrique, 493, 510-11
Caribbean islands, 113-24
disease in, 117
Dutch colonization of, 114, 115
English colonization of, 114—15, 116,
119-22, 124
French colonization of, 115-16
Indian population of, 113, 114, 115-16, 117,
122-23
slavery in, 68-70, 114, 116, 117-24
Spanish colonization of, 113-14, 115, 116,
117,122-24
sugar plantations in, 68-70, 114, 115,
116-17, 119-24, 154, 293
see also individual islands
Carnegie, Andrew, 304
Caro, Heinrich, 290
Cartwright, Edmund, 193
cash crops, 293
Castells, Manuel, 475»
Catalan Atlas (1375), 74
Catholic Church, 38, 40, 45, 48^9, 52, 65,
126,133-36, 139, 140, 175-84, 250,
311-14, 317, 324, 329, 353-55, 358
cattle, 113, 156, 169, 314, 316, 318, 323-24
censorship, 134-35, 180
Chandernagore, 159-60
Charlemagne, 51
Charter Oath, 374
Chaudhuri, N., 229, 396»
Chaunu, Pierre, 113, 114, 116
chemical industry, 283-84, 288-91, 380», 457
Chernobyl nuclear plant, 497-98
Child, Josiah, 153,448
child labor, 43, 111, 210, 230, 382, 384, 388,
406,501
China, 335^9
agriculture in, 23-28, 345
barbarian invasions of, 95, 104
centralized government of, 27-28, 35-36, 37,
50,51,56-57, 97, 141
Christianity in, 336, 337, 339, 340, 341, 344
culture of, 336, 340, 344-45, 347, 353, 366,
424,517
domestic market of, 344
economy of, 477-78, 519
emperors of, 335-37, 347, 371
exploration by, 93-98
historical analysis of, 346-49
homeostatic society of, 38
industrialization of, 200, 335-i9
isolationism of, 93, 96, 97-98, 341, 345
military of, 339-40


as naval power, 93-95, 96, 97-98
opium trade of, 155
population of, 23, 169, 335, 345
poverty in, 345^16
rainfall in, 18, 21, 25»
technological knowledge in, 50, 51-57,
335^9
trade of, 93, 94, 96-97, 141, 145
Western contact with, 336^i9
Chôshû, 373, 374
Christianity, 34-35, 52, 63», 64-65, 66, 69, 99,
175-84, 336-41, 344, 355,358,
393-97, 399»
see also Catholic Church; Protestantism
Chrysler, 486, 489»
Churchill, Winston S., 429
Chu Shih-chieh, 51-52
Cipolla, Carlo, 173, 192»
cities, semi-autonomous, 36-37
Civil War, U.S., 298, 317, 318, 321», 430»
Clairvaux abbey, 58
Clapham, J. H., 194, 453, 454»
classical civilization, 31-33, 34, 37-40
climate:
arid, 13-14, 19-20
continental, 19
economic development and, 14-15, 174
productivity and, 15-16
temperate vs. tropical, 4, 5-16, 68
clitorectomy, 12
Clive, Robert, 154, 159, 160, 161, 162, 166-67
clocks, mechanical, 47-51, 55, 155, 178, 190,
204,205,211-12, 222, 229,243,249,
277, 285, 302, 304, 325, 336-37, 339,
341,358-59, 449
clothing, xviii-xix, 26, 111, 154, 316, 369,
377-78
cloves, 130», 146-47
coal, 189-90, 199, 236, 270, 289, 290, 291,
364, 382, 390, 391», 408, 453, 457
Coalbrookdale furnace, 189
Cobden-Chevalier Treaty (1860), 266», 267
Cobo, Bernabe, 110
coca, 110», 111, 169
Cockerill, John, 280
Cockerill, William, 279-80
Coen, Jan Pieterszoon, 143, 153
coffee, 146, 147, 155», 401, 426
Cold War, 468,470-71
colonialism, 422^il
anti, 438-39, 493, 511
dependency and, 430-31
historical analysis of, 163-64, 422^1
legacy of, 439^1
liberation from, 431-39, 495, 504
neo-, 432-33
post, 431-41, 499-507
Colonizer^Model, The (Bfaut), 7», 9»
Columbian exchange, 169-73
Free download pdf