The wealth and poverty of nations / David S. Landes 

Public ISBD Titre : The wealth and poverty of nations : why some are so rich and some so poor Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : David S. Landes, Auteur Editeur : New York : W.W. Norton and Company Année de publication : c1999 Importance : XXI, 658 p. Présentation : maps Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-393-31888-3 Note générale : Includes bibliographical references and Index. Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Poverty -- Europe -- History. Wealth -- Europe -- History. Wealth -- History. Index. décimale : HC 240 .Z9 Résumé : "David S. Landes tells the long, fascinating story of wealth and power throughout the world: the creation of wealth, the paths of winners and losers, the rise and fall of nations. He studies history as a process, attempting to understand how the world's cultures lead to - or retard - economic and military success and material achievement." "Countries of the West, Landes asserts, prospered early through the interplay Lire la suite... Note de contenu : 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? The wealth and poverty of nations : why some are so rich and some so poor [texte imprimé] / David S. Landes, Auteur . - New York : W.W. Norton and Company, c1999 . - XXI, 658 p. : maps ; 24 cm. ISBN : 978-0-393-31888-3 Includes bibliographical references and Index. Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Poverty -- Europe -- History. Wealth -- Europe -- History. Wealth -- History. Index. décimale : HC 240 .Z9 Résumé : "David S. Landes tells the long, fascinating story of wealth and power throughout the world: the creation of wealth, the paths of winners and losers, the rise and fall of nations. He studies history as a process, attempting to understand how the world's cultures lead to - or retard - economic and military success and material achievement." "Countries of the West, Landes asserts, prospered early through the interplay Lire la suite... Note de contenu : 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?

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