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

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empire of, 74-78, 88, 89, 99-112, 122, 168,
169-73, 269, 294-95, 310-13, 408,
409, 425,430
exploration by, 70, 79, 93
Holland and, 138-40, 143, 179
industrialization of, 249, 250
intellectual life of, 179-81, 250, 313-14
Japan and, 354, 355
Jews and,179-80
literacy in, 250
Muslim population of, 54, 64-66, 139, 173,
179,180
as naval power, 101, 150, 233
poverty in, 173, 250
slavery and, 71-72, 311
trade of, 141, 168, 169-73
wealth of, 171-73, 175
Spice Islands, 93, 127, 143, 144
spices, 88-89, 97, 130-33, 141-13, 154, 155,
446
spinning, 190-93, 207-10, 225-29, 281»,
299-300, 304, 364, 365, 379, 380
Springfield Armory, 303^i
squatters, 319-20
Staden, Hans, 76
Staunton, George, 342
steampower, 187-89, 191, 193, 198-99, 280,
281, 285, 301, 321, 345, 380, 446
steel, 189», 190, 197, 228, 236, 268, 271, 279,
285-88, 304,315, 453, 454»
Strachey, John, 501
Streeten, Paul, 5
Structure of Social Action, ^(Parsons), 175»
Suez Canal, 404
sugar, 68-70, 114-25, 146, 154, 155, 168, 169,
190», 293, 311, 316, 364, 368-69, 401
Summers, Lawrence, 494
sunk costs, doctrine of, 304, 520
Supple, Barry, 450, 453
Suraj-ud-Dowlah, 159, 160
Suvarov, Alexander, 254
Suzuki Shosan, 363
Sweden, 248, 249, 278, 286
Switzerland, 177, 366


Taiping rebellion (1850-64), 345
Taiwan, 377, 437-38, 475, 478
Takekoshi, Yosoburo ,353»
Talbi, Mohammed, 414»
Tanganyika, 501-3
tariffs, 163, 246, 265, 267, 326, 345, 375, 405,
407, 436, 452, 482, 493
Tawney, R. H. ("Harry"), 176, 179-80
taxation, 152, 161, 398, 399, 404, 435, 437»,
446
tea, 155,426, 446
technology:
analog vs. digital, 49
diffusion of, 187-93, 512-12, 522-23


historical analysis of, 54
innovations in, 45-59, 169, 187-93
moral values and, 58-59
telephones, 306, 468, 469
textile industry, 43-44, 45, 55, 56, 121, 124,
154-55, 163, 186, 190-93, 206-10,
213, 223, 225-29, 250, 267, 279-80,
281», 284, 297-304, 315, 364-65, 369,
402, 419
Thailand, 478, 479-80, 517
Thatcher, Margaret, 459
Third World, 194, 236, 252, 269, 433, 509,
516
Thomson Multimedia, 476
throsdes, 299-300
time, 59
measurement of, 47-51, 178, 211-12, 224,
339,359,376
Timur, 21», 153, 156
Tlacallel, 103-t
tobacco, 115, 169
Todorov, Tzvetan, 77
Tokugawa Ieyasu, 354—55, 357
Tokugawa shogunate, 239», 355-58, 360, 362,
364, 366, 368, 371-74, 375, 383,391,
420,473
Tokyo Electric Light Company (TELC), 381
Toledo, Francisco de, 108
tolls, 245-17
Tomoe, Yamashiro, 384», 388
tools, 228-29, 302-3
torture, 76, 77»
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 353», 354
trade, 43, 179
barriers to, 163, 234, 245^7, 265-67, 276,
280, 281, 307-9, 326, 345, 375, 405,
407, 433, 436, 446, 452, 473-74, 482,
483, 488, 492, 493
colonial, 433, 434-35, 436
free, 56, 59, 143, 148, 163, 265-67, 301,
342, 407, 433, 442, 449, 452-53, 470,
473-74, 492, 495,521-22
greed and, 143^i6, 147
intolerance and, 184-85, 249
maritime, 56, 66-67, 88-89, 93, 94, 96-97,
128-32, 137-49, 152
Ricardian model for, 323
slave, 117-22, 123, 130, 131, 168, 293
transportation, 214-15, 224-25, 245-47, 256,
447
treaties, 166-67
Treaty of Munster (1648), 247
Treaty of Paris (1763), 428
Treaty of Utrecht (1713), 233
Trevithick, Richard, 301»
Trevor-Roper, Hugh, 181
tributary empires, 102, 107, 110-11
Trudaine, Daniel, 279
Trudaine de Montigny, 287
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