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?