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  1. Niall Ferguson _ Civilization: The West and the

    Inequality did increase as a result of the Industrial Revolution. Between 1780 and 1830 output per labourer in the UK grew over 25 per cent but wages rose barely 5 per cent. The proportion of national income going to the top percentile of the population rose from 25 per cent in 1801 to 35 per cent in 1848. In Paris in 1820, around 9 per cent of the population were classified as 'proprietors and rentiers' {living from their investments} and owned 41 per cent of recorded wealth. By 1911 their share had risen to 52 per cent. In Prussia, the share of income going to the top 5 per cent rose from 21 per cent in 1854 to 27 per cent in 1896 and to 43 per cent in 1913.29 Industrial societies, it seems clear, grew more unequal over the course of the nineteenth century.
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  2. Niall Ferguson _ Civilization: The West and the

    by the second decade of the twentieth century the gap in living standards between London and Beijing was around six to one, compared with two to one in the eighteenth century.36
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  3. Niall Ferguson _ Civilization: The West and the

    In 1800 seven out of the world's ten biggest cities had still been Asian, and Beijing had still exceeded London in size. By 1900, largely as a result of the Industrial Revolution, only one of the biggest was Asian; the rest were European or American.
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  4. Niall Ferguson _ Civilization: The West and the

    In 1515 a decree of Sultan Selim I had threatened with death anyone found using the printing press.36 This failure to reconcile Islam with scientific progress was to prove disastrous. Having once provided European scholars with ideas and inspiration, Muslim scientists were now cut off from the latest research. If the Scientific Revolution was generated by a network, then the Ottoman Empire was effectively offline.
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  5. Niall Ferguson _ Civilization: The West and the

    My generation feels like it's the lucky one,' she told me one night. 'Our grandparents had the Great Leap Forward, our parents had the Cultural Revolution. But we get to study, to travel, to make money. So I guess we really don't think that much about the Square thing.
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  6. Niall Ferguson _ Civilization: The West and the

    El Japón en el que Hiro-Hito alcanzó la edad adulta era un país que admiraba a Occidente por su modernidad al tiempo que se hallaba resentido contra él por su arrogancia. Parecía que, para ser tratado como un igual, Japón tendría que adquirir también el último de los accesorios occidentales: un imperio.
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  7. Niall Ferguson _ Civilization: The West and the

    En lugar de coaligarse en una masa empobrecida, el proletariado se subdividió entre unas «aristocracias obreras» cualificadas y un lumopenproletariado vicioso. Las primeras prefirieron las huelgas y la negociación colectiva a la revolución {...}, el segundo prefirió la ginebra.
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  8. Niall Ferguson _ Civilization: The West and the

    Hemos olvidado profundamente en todas partes que el Pago Monetario no es la única relación entre seres humanos... No es el único nexo del hombre con el hombre' -Thomas Carlyle
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  9. Niall Ferguson _ Civilization: The West and the

    Marx era una persona odiosa. Vividor desaliñado y polemista virtulento le gustaba alardear que su espora era, por nacimiento, «la baronesa de Von Estphalen»{...}. En consecuencia, durante casi toda su vida hubo de depender de los donativos de Engels, para quien el socialismo era una mera afición {...}
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  10. Niall Ferguson _ Civilization: The West and the

    No tenemos ningún interés en Sudamérica; no sentimos ninguna simpatía políticamente fundamentada hacia ellos. Venimos de orígenes distintos... Ni todos los tratados que pudiéramos hacer, ni los comisionados que pudiéramos enviar, ni el dinero que pudiéramos prestarles, transformarían a sus Bolívares... en Washingtons'. -Edward Everett
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  11. Niall Ferguson _ Civilization: The West and the

    {...} en Latinoamérica las constituciones se utilizan como instrumentos para subvertir el propio imperio de la ley
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  12. Niall Ferguson _ Civilization: The West and the

    There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and {another's} situation.
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