Diamond Jubilee of Mechanical Road Passenger Transport in Coventry, 1884-1944
Author : Coventry (City). Transport Committee
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Release : 1944
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Author : Coventry (City). Transport Committee
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File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 1944
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Page : 700 pages
File Size : 20,1 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Transportation
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Page : 730 pages
File Size : 13,93 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Street-railroads
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Page : pages
File Size : 10,11 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Bus lines
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Page : 554 pages
File Size : 27,64 MB
Release : 1944-07
Category : Electric railroads
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Page : 726 pages
File Size : 49,9 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Bus lines
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Author : K. Richardson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 32,56 MB
Release : 1977-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 134903388X
Author : Gregory Clark
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 2008-12-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1400827817
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.
Author : Eric A. Willats
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 15,93 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Islington (London, England)
ISBN : 9780951187104
Author : Increase Allen Lapham
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Page : 220 pages
File Size : 25,59 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Social Science
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