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Author Landes, David S.

Title The wealth and poverty of nations : why some are so rich and some so poor / David S. Landes.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton, [1998]
©1998

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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  330.16 L233    Check Shelf
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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  330.16 LANDES    Check Shelf
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Edition First edition.
Description xxi, 650 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Contents Nature's Inequalities -- Answers to Geography: Europe and China -- European Exceptionalism: A Different Path -- The Invention of Invention -- The Great Opening -- Eastward Ho! -- From Discoveries to Empire -- Bittersweet Isles -- Empire in the East -- For Love of Gain -- Golconda -- Winners and Losers: The Balance Sheet of Empire -- The Nature of Industrial Revolution -- Why Europe? Why Then? -- Britain and the Others -- Pursuit of Albion -- You Need Money to Make Money -- The Wealth of Knowledge -- Frontiers -- The South American Way -- Celestial Empire: Stasis and Retreat -- Japan: And the Last Shall Be First -- The Meiji Restoration -- History Gone Wrong? -- Empire and After -- Loss of Leadership -- Winners and -- Losers -- How Did We Get Here? Where Are We Going?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [567]-635) and index.
Subject Wealth -- Europe -- History.
Wealth -- History.
Poverty -- Europe -- History.
Poverty -- History.
Regional economic disparities -- History.
Economic history.
Economic development -- Social aspects.
ISBN 0393040178
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