How the world became rich
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The European Growth Take Off
Bellton: I think some accounts of the european growth take off sometimes kind of conflate it with like, a triumph of the west narrative. And i at least read your book as as pushing back against that and emphasizing how contingent a lot of what happened was. Bellton: We don't necessarily think the the colonization, exploitation, story of a military rise the west and the economic rise are necessarily caused always by the same thing.
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