GGRA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, Jingoism
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Foster, j. b. (1992) introduction, " (columbus and the new world order, 1492- 1992), Frank, a. (1989) the development of underdevelopmmain key ideas: Adam smith and his take on the discovery of america and that of a passage to the. East indies by the cape of good hope . What benefits or misfortunes to mankind may hereafter result from those great events, no human wisdom can foresee. To the natives, however, both of the east and the west indies, all the commercial benefits which can have resulted from those events have been sunk and lost in the dreadful misfortunes which they have occasioned. In smith"s view the rise of the new commercial order was made possible in large part by the very opening up of the world to european expansion that these. "discoveries" portended; and in this respect no single event had greater impact than christopher columbus" "discovery" for european society--of what columbus himself was to call "another world. "
