Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Invalid PensionsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1
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Sarah M. Cronk. March 30, 1886. -- Laid on the Table and Ordered to be Printed
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Invalid PensionsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1
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House documents
Author: Sarah M. Dunn. March 23, 1886. -- Laid on the Table and Ordered to be Printed
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Invalid PensionsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Sarah A. Hooper. June 15, 1886. -- Laid on the Table and Ordered to be Printed
Author: Sarah M. Thomas. May 3, 1882. -- Laid on the Table and Ordered to be Printed
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on War ClaimsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1
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Sarah L. Wetter. May 7, 1886. -- Laid on the Table and Ordered to be Printed
Author: Marion M. King. March 8, 1886. -- Laid on the Table and Ordered to be Printed
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military AffairsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1
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Margaret Klinedinst. March 23, 1886. -- Laid on the Table and Ordered to be Printed
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Invalid PensionsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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A Farewell to Alms
Author: Gregory ClarkPublisher: 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.
Bioinvaders
Author: Sarah JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781874267553
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
We are pleased to announce a new series of environmental history readers, suitable for students. Comprising essays selected from our journals, Environment and History and Environmental Values, each inexpensive paperback volume will address an important theme in environmental history, combining underlying theory and specific case-studies. The first volume, Bio-invaders, investigates the rhetoric and realities of exotic, introduced and 'alien' species. The book comprises a number of general essays, exploring and challenging common perceptions about such species, and a series of case studies of specific species in specific contexts. Its geographical coverage ranges from the United Kingdom to New Zealand by way of South Africa, India and Palestine; and the essays cover both historical and recent introductions.