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... ancient institution that had long been in abeyance: forced labor and compulsory national service for war. The first took the form of slavery and wage labor, under threat of starvation and imprisonment: a system that, like slavery in the ...
... ancient institution that had long been in abeyance: forced labor and compulsory national service for war. The first took the form of slavery and wage labor, under threat of starvation and imprisonment: a system that, like slavery in the ...
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... ancient and modern forms of the megamachine; but before doing so, let me make plain that the ancient machine was not identified — indeed remained quite undiscovered — until the new one had taken form. As we shall see, their differences ...
... ancient and modern forms of the megamachine; but before doing so, let me make plain that the ancient machine was not identified — indeed remained quite undiscovered — until the new one had taken form. As we shall see, their differences ...
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... ancient world. The rest of the material was partly derived from unedited accounts handed on by Hakluyt. Rich, E. E., and C. H. Wilson (editors). The Cambridge Economic History of Europe. 6 vols. Cambridge: 1967. Rickover, H. G. Can ...
... ancient world. The rest of the material was partly derived from unedited accounts handed on by Hakluyt. Rich, E. E., and C. H. Wilson (editors). The Cambridge Economic History of Europe. 6 vols. Cambridge: 1967. Rickover, H. G. Can ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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