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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Praise
Also by DAVID S. LANDES
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. Nature’s Inequalities
2. Answers to Geography: Europe and China
3. European Exceptionalism: A Different Path
4. The Invention of Invention
5. The Great Opening
6. Eastward Ho!
7. From Discoveries to Empire
8. Bittersweet Isles
9. Empire in the East
10. For Love of Gain
11. Golconda
12. Winners and Losers: The Balance Sheet of Empire
13. The Nature of Industrial Revolution
14. Why Europe? Why Then?
15. Britain and the Others
16. Pursuit of Albion
17. You Need Money to Make Money
18. The Wealth of Knowledge
19. Frontiers
20. The South American Way
21. Celestial Empire: Stasis and Retreat
22. Japan: And the Last Shall Be First
23. The Meiji Restoration
24. History Gone Wrong?
25. Empire and After
26. Loss of Leadership
27. Winners and…
28. Losers
29. How Did We Get Here? Where Are We Going?
EPILOGUE 1999
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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