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PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS=xi
INTRODUCTION=xvii
1. Nature's Inequalities=3
2. Answers to Geography: Europe and China=17
3. European Exceptionalism: A Different Path=29
4. The Invention of Invention=45
5. The Great Opening=60
6. Eastward Ho!=79
7. From Discoveries to Empire=99
8. Bittersweet Isles=113
9. Empire in the East=125
10. For Love of Gain=137
11. Golconda=150
12. Winners and Losers: The Balance Sheet of Empire=168
13. The Nature of Industrial Revolution=186
14. Why Europe? Why Then?=200
15. Britain and the Others=213
16. Pursuit of Albion=231
17. You Need Money to Make Money=256
18. The Wealth of Knowledge=276
19. Frontiers=292
20. The South American Way=310
21. Celestial Empire: Stasis and Retreat=335
22. Japan: And the Last Shall Be First=350
23. The Meiji Restoration=371
24. History Gone Wrong?=392
25. Empire and After=422
26. Loss of Leadership=442
27. Winners and...=465
28. Losers=491
29. How Did We Get Here? Where Are We Going?=512
NOTES=525
BIBLIOGRAPHY=567
INDEX=637