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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
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Professor David S. Landes takes a historic approach to the analysis of the distribution of wealth in this landmark study of world economics. Landes argues that the key to today's disparity between the rich and poor nations of the world stems directly from the industrial revolution, in which some countries made the leap to industrialization and became f... »
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Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
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Most people think of Prussia as this monolithic kingdom that grew like a cancer in central europe for three hundred years. In reality, it was Brandenberg and the Hohenzollens that created a myth and an empire. Prussia was never more than the far eastern province (and an agrarian one to boot) of what became the German Empire in 1871. In point of fact... »
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A Venetian Affair: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century
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It's hard to imagine a more romantic real-life story than the long, forbidden love affair of the 18th-century Venetian nobleman Andrea Memmo and a half-English beauty named Giustiniana Wynne. Andrea Di Robilant's A Venetian Affair is drawn in part from a cache of letters discovered by the author's father in his ancestral palazzo on the G... »
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