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Tables of Contents for The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
xi
6
INTRODUCTION
xvii
1. Nature's Inequalities
3
14
2. Answers to Geography: Europe and China
17
12
3. European Exceptionalism: A Different Path
29
16
4. The Invention of Invention
45
15
5. The Great Opening
60
19
6. Eastward Ho!
79
20
7. From Discoveries to Empire
99
14
8. Bittersweet Isles
113
12
9. Empire in the East
125
12
10. For Love of Gain
137
13
11. Golconda
150
18
12. Winners and Losers: The Balance Sheet of Empire
168
18
13. The Nature of Industrial Revolution
186
14
14. Why Europe? Why Then?
200
13
15. Britain and the Others
213
18
16. Pursuit of Albion
231
25
17. You Need Money to Make Money
256
20
18. The Wealth of Knowledge
276
16
19. Frontiers
292
18
20. The South American Way
310
25
21. Celestial Empire: Stasis and Retreat
335
15
22. Japan: And the Last Shall Be First
350
21
23. The Meiji Restoration
371
21
24. History Gone Wrong?
392
30
25. Empire and After
422
20
26. Loss of Leadership
442
23
27. Winners and...
465
26
28. Losers
491
21
29. How Did We Get Here? Where Are We Going?
512
13
NOTES
525
42
BIBLIOGRAPHY
567
70
INDEX
637