 | Rondo E. Cameron - 1993 - 484 páginas
...America and of an all-water route to the Orient, achievements that Adam Smith, writing in 1776, called "the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind."- According to Kuznets (and no doubt Smith would have agreed), a large part of the economic history —... | |
 | Noam Chomsky - 1993 - 184 páginas
...Hemisphere and Asia to European conquest and setting the stage for the devastation of Africa as well, as "the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind." Writing in 1776, he understood very well the "essential contribution" of these achievements to the... | |
 | Wilfred J. Ethier, Wilfred Ethier, Elhanan Helpman, J. Peter Neary - 1993 - 312 páginas
...and the almost contemporaneous journey to India around the Cape of Good Hope by Vasco da Gama, to be "the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind."1 While the theme of the emergence and expansion of the "The Atlantic economy" has been one... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - 664 páginas
...town." 33. Ibid., pp. 415-17; on America and the East Indies. Bk. III. chap. 7. pan 3, pp. 557 ff. "The discovery of America, and that of a passage to...important events recorded in the history of mankind" (ibid. , p. 590). See, on the advantages of "colony trade," ibid. , pp. 5 74 ff.; also pp. 424-25 on... | |
 | Thomas Allan Brady, Heiko Augustinus Oberman, James D. Tracy - 1993 - 784 páginas
...Republic, when the Scottish philosopher Adam Smith wrote that "the discovery of America, and that of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest events recorded in the history of mankind."16 The years between 1400 and 1600 were Europe's "first... | |
 | David Chidester, Edward T. Linenthal - 1995 - 372 páginas
...political economist Adam Smith linked America and South Africa as the twin poles of a new world order. "The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope," Smith declared, "are the two greatest and most important events in the history of mankind." Risking... | |
 | Karen Ordahl Kupperman - 1995 - 448 páginas
...Nations, Adam Smith (consciously or unconsciously echoing Gomara), called the discovery of America one of "the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind," while a few years later the ex-Jesuit Juan Pablo Viscardo called it— with breathtaking simplicity,... | |
 | Ronald Findlay - 1995 - 202 páginas
...Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama, the epic "discoveries" of a less politically correct age, were "the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind." My earlier model had "Europe" as the source of capital and the migrant labor force, while "America"... | |
 | Joseph R. Roach - 1996 - 356 páginas
...permanent and durable acid-free paper. Printed in the United States of America cio 987654321 p 109 8 76 5 The Discovery of America, and that of a passage to...important events recorded in the history of mankind. Before Bfyis tfere was nothing. -)OHN LENNON CO Preface xi Acknowledgments xv I INTRODUCTION: HISTORY,... | |
 | Christopher Howe - 1996 - 540 páginas
...Indo-China. Concerning Asia, Smith argued that the discovery of the Cape route to the East Indies was one of the two 'greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind', the other being the discovery of the Americas. He analysed the eighteenth-century French view that... | |
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The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind. 
