Author: bombay goverment
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Languages : en
Pages : 790
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ANNUAL REPORT ON THE BOMBAY GAOLS, INCLUDING SIND AND ADEN, FOR THE OFFICAL YEAR 1865-66
Author: bombay goverment
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Languages : en
Pages : 790
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Pages : 790
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The Coal Question; an Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal-Mines
Author: William Stanley Jevons
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Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Allen's Indian mail and register of intelligence for British and foreign India
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Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Dams and Public Safety
Author: Robert B. Jansen
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Category : Dam failures
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Category : Dam failures
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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A Farewell to Alms
Author: Gregory Clark
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400827817
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 433
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Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it--occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place? Why didn't industrialization make the whole world rich--and why did it make large parts of the world even poorer? In A Farewell to Alms, Gregory Clark tackles these profound questions and suggests a new and provocative way in which culture--not exploitation, geography, or resources--explains the wealth, and the poverty, of nations. Countering the prevailing theory that the Industrial Revolution was sparked by the sudden development of stable political, legal, and economic institutions in seventeenth-century Europe, Clark shows that such institutions existed long before industrialization. He argues instead that these institutions gradually led to deep cultural changes by encouraging people to abandon hunter-gatherer instincts-violence, impatience, and economy of effort-and adopt economic habits-hard work, rationality, and education. The problem, Clark says, is that only societies that have long histories of settlement and security seem to develop the cultural characteristics and effective workforces that enable economic growth. For the many societies that have not enjoyed long periods of stability, industrialization has not been a blessing. Clark also dissects the notion, championed by Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, that natural endowments such as geography account for differences in the wealth of nations. A brilliant and sobering challenge to the idea that poor societies can be economically developed through outside intervention, A Farewell to Alms may change the way global economic history is understood.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400827817
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it--occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place? Why didn't industrialization make the whole world rich--and why did it make large parts of the world even poorer? In A Farewell to Alms, Gregory Clark tackles these profound questions and suggests a new and provocative way in which culture--not exploitation, geography, or resources--explains the wealth, and the poverty, of nations. Countering the prevailing theory that the Industrial Revolution was sparked by the sudden development of stable political, legal, and economic institutions in seventeenth-century Europe, Clark shows that such institutions existed long before industrialization. He argues instead that these institutions gradually led to deep cultural changes by encouraging people to abandon hunter-gatherer instincts-violence, impatience, and economy of effort-and adopt economic habits-hard work, rationality, and education. The problem, Clark says, is that only societies that have long histories of settlement and security seem to develop the cultural characteristics and effective workforces that enable economic growth. For the many societies that have not enjoyed long periods of stability, industrialization has not been a blessing. Clark also dissects the notion, championed by Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, that natural endowments such as geography account for differences in the wealth of nations. A brilliant and sobering challenge to the idea that poor societies can be economically developed through outside intervention, A Farewell to Alms may change the way global economic history is understood.
The Illustrated London News
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Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Pages : 700
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Coal, Steam and Ships
Author: Crosbie Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107196728
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 473
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An innovative account of the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers and the public.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107196728
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 473
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An innovative account of the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers and the public.
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
Author: Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Malarial Subjects
Author: Rohan Deb Roy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107172365
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
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This book examines how and why British imperial rule shaped scientific knowledge about malaria and its cures in nineteenth-century India. This title is also available as Open Access.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107172365
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
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This book examines how and why British imperial rule shaped scientific knowledge about malaria and its cures in nineteenth-century India. This title is also available as Open Access.
The Yemen
Author: Harold Ingrams
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Category : Yemen
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Category : Yemen
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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