 | M. N. Pearson - 2006 - 178 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 - 274 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 - 120 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 - 345 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 - 331 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... | |
 | Nicolás Kanellos
...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 - 639 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 Tabor Linenthal - 1995 - 352 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... | |
 | Henry J. Perkinson - 1995 - 172 sider
...history of Europe is frequently noted. Adam Smith declared that "the discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope are the greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind."26 The first and foremost... | |
 | Joseph R. Roach - 1996 - 328 sider
...Printed in the United States of America cio 987654321 p 109 8 76 5 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. Before Bfyis tfere... | |
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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. 
