 | Edward Farley Oaten - 1991 - 294 strani
...blaze Resplendent shine, for I will chant the praise Of Lusian chiefs. —Camoens' "Lusiad" I, Hi.9 The discovery of America and that of a passage to...important events recorded in the history of mankind. — Adam Smith. ON July 8, 1497, the whole population of Lisbon was gathered on the banks of the Tagus.... | |
 | James D. Tracy - 1997 - 518 strani
...proclaimed it in the birth year of the American Republic: "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."2 Today, as this vision shoulders aside a rival that claims... | |
 | J. H. Elliott - 1992 - 140 strani
...generally favourable, to turn this non-committal passage into an ex cathedra historical pronouncement: 'the discovery of America, and that of a passage to...most important events recorded in .the history of mankind'.3 But in what, precisely, did their importance lie ? As the candidates for Raynal's essay... | |
 | Nicolàs Kanellos, Claudia Esteva-Fabregat, Francisco LomelÕ - 1993 - 422 strani
...Gomara's assertion, the Scottish economist Adam Smith said in his work The Wealth of Nations that, "The discovery of America, and that of a passage to...important events recorded in the history of mankind." . \P.\I I> IH ll * .. !>»,. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Seville was the European... | |
 | Peter Minowitz - 1993 - 376 strani
...whose title is "Of the Advantages which Europe has derived from the Discovery of America, and from that of a Passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope." The discussion of the benefits accruing to Europe "considered as one great country" is in fact dwarfed... | |
 | Noam Chomsky - 1993 - 184 strani
...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... | |
 | Rondo E. Cameron - 1993 - 484 strani
...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 —... | |
 | Wilfred J. Ethier, Wilfred Ethier, Elhanan Helpman, J. Peter Neary - 1993 - 312 strani
...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 strani
...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 strani
...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... | |
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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. 
