 | T. W. Hutchison - 1978 - 376 sider
...523). important events in the history of mankind are, for Smith, 'the discovery of America and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope'; that is, two vast potential extensions of the market (and the second of Smith's greatest historic events... | |
 | Gary M. Walton, James F. Shepherd - 1979 - 244 sider
...UNIVERSITY PRESS: SYNDICS LIBRARY ft The economic rise of early America 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. Their consequences... | |
 | M. N. Pearson - 2006 - 208 sider
...the Portuguese discoveries is Adam Smith's famous statement that 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' (DK Fieldhouse,... | |
 | Edward Farley Oaten - 1991 - 294 sider
...will chant the praise Of Lusian chiefs. —Camoens' "Lusiad" I, Hi.9 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. — Adam Smith.... | |
 | J. H. Elliott - 1992 - 140 sider
...non-committal passage into an ex cathedra historical pronouncement: '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'.3 But in what,... | |
 | Peter Minowitz - 1993 - 376 sider
...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 - 340 sider
...or "our noble ideals," from which we, to be sure, are exempt.2 "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," Adam Smith wrote... | |
 | Nicolàs Kanellos, Claudia Esteva-Fabregat, Francisco LomelÕ - 1993 - 422 sider
...economist Adam Smith said in his work The Wealth of Nations that, "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." . \P.\I I> IH ll... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - 664 sider
...America and the East Indies. Bk. III. chap. 7. pan 3, pp. 557 ff. "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" (ibid. , p. 590).... | |
 | David Chidester, Edward T. Linenthal - 1995 - 372 sider
...America and South Africa as the twin poles of a new world order. "The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope," Smith declared, "are the two greatest and most important events in the history of mankind." Risking... | |
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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. 
