THE STORY OF MAN AN INTRODUCTION TO 150,000 YEARS CARROLL & GRAF 2007 PART IX Chapter 14: Europe After Rome Chapter 15: The World in 1095 The Christian Europe that Pope Urban called to arms in November 1095 was very different from the empire over which Constantine had ruled 700 years earlier. One striking …
Book Review Introduction In Part 5 of A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations, Clive Ponting tells us that “The 18th century was marked by a wave of optimism about the future and the inevitability of progress in every field.” “The Reverend Thomas Malthus took a much …
THE BOTTOM BILLION WHY THE POOREST COUNTRIES ARE FAILING AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT PAUL COLLIER OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2007 PART VII PART 5: THE STRUGGLE FOR THE BOTTOM BILLION Chapter 11: An Agenda for Action We have been through the costs that the countries of the bottom billion are inflicting …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART VII Chapter 7: The Third Billion (1927-1960) 7.1 Introduction: Inputs and interactions Adding the second billion to the population of the world had taken a century whereas the third billion took only a third as long. Nevertheless, those 33 years …
THE STORY OF MAN AN INTRODUCTION TO 150,000 YEARS OF HUMAN HISTORY CYRILL AYDON CARROLL & GRAF 2007 PART VIII Chapter 13: The triumph of Islam It had taken 300 years from Jesus’s first outdoor sermon for Christianity to become the official religion of a great empire. The next religion to arise in the same …
THE CREATION OF WORLD POVERTY TERESA HAYTER Pluto Press in association with Third World First Second edition 1990 PART VIII Chapter 12: Workers and wages The problem of finding workers for mines and plantations was a continuous one. As long as workers have access to their own means of production they will not work for …
Book Review Introduction In Part 4 of A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations, Clive Ponting tells us that “Until about 300 years ago the world’s population never increased by more than about 0.1% a year – 1/20th of the current rate.” “The 18th century saw the …
THE BOTTOM BILLION WHY THE POOREST COUNTRIES ARE FAILING AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT PAUL COLLIER OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2007 PART VI PART 4: THE INSTRUMENTS Chapter 8: Military Intervention After Iraq it is difficult to arouse much support for military intervention. For me this chapter is the toughest in the book because …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART VI Chapter 6: The Second Billion (1825-1927) 6.1 Introduction: The entry of science The population of the world doubled, from one to two billion, in the century following 1825, with most of the increase still being in Asia. The period …
THE STORY OF MAN AN INTRODUCTION TO 150,000 YEARS CARROLL & GRAF 2007 PART VII Chapter 12: The World in 500 By the year 500, the culture of wet rice farming with iron tools developed in China was also firmly established in the two countries – Korea and Japan – most exposed to Chinese influence. …
