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

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Holland, 137-49
agriculture in, 214, 223
decline of, 442-48
economy of, 443-45
empire of, 127, 128, 143^9, 426
Great Britain and, 442-44
guilds in, 243
industrialization of, 446-48
Japan and, 144, 355, 356, 366-67, 368
as naval power, 137, 140^il, 145, 153, 443
population of, 137
slavery and, 118
Spanish control of, 138-40, 143, 179
textile industry of, 235, 280, 444-45, 447
trade of, 131-32, 137^9, 152, 153, 154,
155-56, 233, 247, 426, 445, 446
Hong Kong, 456, 475, 476, 477, 478, 519
Hooke, Robert, 205
Hornblower, J. C, 188
horses, 20,41,316
house construction (American), 301-2
Houtman, Cornelis de, 130, 140
Hue, Evariste, 342, 345^6
Huguenots, 136, 223
Huitzilopochtli, 103
Humaita fortress, 332-33
human sacrifice, 103-5, 106
Hundred Years War, 220
Huntington, Ellsworth, 3
Huntsman, Benjamin, 286
Hurricane Andrew, 14
Huskisson, William, 404
Hussein, Saddam, 394, 400», 409»
Huygens, Christian, 204, 205
Huyghen van Linschoten, Jan, 140
hydraulic depotism thesis, 27-28
hygiene, xviii-xix, 175, 180


Ieyasu, see Tokugawa Ieyasu
imperialism, 63-64, 122, 149, 167, 372, 393,
408,415,422^1
see also colonialism
Inca empire, 107-12
income:
comparative, 165
distribution of, 294
increase in, 222, 479
per capita, 186, 194, 196, 325
Index Librorum Prohibitorum, 180
India, 152-67
agriculture in, 26,156, 157, 158, 165, 437
British rule in, 152-67, 394, 395-96, 427,
428, 437, 439
caste system of, 239»
climate of, 14, 15, 16
disease in, 21», 162
economy of, 156, 157, 163, 439
historical analysis of, 163-67, 225
population of, 155, 156»


poverty in, 157
technology of, 52, 225-30
textile industry of, 121, 154-55, 163,
225-29, 380, 389, 405, 437
wealth of, 156, 157-58, 160-63, 167, 437»
Western contact with, 127-30, 152-67, 372,
393
indigo, 190-91
individualism, 219-20, 297, 391, 487-88, 489
Indonesia, 148^9, 153, 156, 158, 159,446,
447, 448, 499, 506
Industrial Revolution, 186-309
development of, xviii, 55, 121, 154, 163,
165, 186-309
economic impact of, 194-96
Europe as setting for, 200-212, 343, 514»
exploitation in, 381-91, 408, 432-33, 434
financing of, 256-75
follower countries in, 236-37, 257, 260,
273-75, 381, 383, 460
imperialism and, 428-29
machines in, 186, 187-93, 200, 210, 222,
226-29, 237, 248-53, 256, 260, 266,
280, 281, 283, 299-300, 301, 302,
304
medieval legacy and, 238-47
power sources for, 40^1, 121, 186, 187-89,
190, 200, 206, 210, 213, 244, 284, 285,
405-6
productivity in, 186-87, 196-98, 199, 213,
232
Protestants and, 177
as revolution, 187, 193-98
Second, 284, 380, 447-48, 457
slavery and, 119-22
social values and, 215-23, 252-53
standardization in, 301-4
supply and demand in, 208», 227-28
technical knowledge and, 274, 276-91
transport and, 214—15, 256
infant mortality, 11
inflation, 493, 510-11
infrastructure, 432, 435, 469, 507
Inner Asian Frontiers (Lattimore), 25»
Innes, Harold, 294
Inquisition, 65, 133-36, 139, 180, 311, 327,
355
intellectual activity, 134-36, 179-81, 201-2,
250, 313-14, 341^2, 401-2, 512-13
interest rates, 443
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 506, 509
inventions, 45-59, 187-93
investment, personal, 260-61, 275
"invisible hand," 314
Iraq, 394, 409, 492
iron industry, 55, 189-90, 197, 213, 228-29,
236, 250, 262, 268, 270-73, 285-88,
297, 298, 315, 447, 453, 454»
Irresistible, 198-99
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