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In 1492, about sixty million people lived in Europe, fifteen million fewer than lived in the Americas.
“The dissolution of monasteries under Henry VIII and the subsequent reorganization of agriculture was another step that altered the balance of power in rural England. The slow growth in the real incomes of the English peasantry before the beginning of the industrial era was a consequence of this type of drift.”
― Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
― Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
“Most people around the globe today are better off than our ancestors because citizens and workers in early industrial societies organized, challenged elite-dominated choices about technology and work conditions, and forced ways of sharing the gains from technical improvements more equitably.”
― Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
― Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
“Although the denazification process was widely reviled in Germany and beyond, in the aftermath of the Cold War, the logic of Nuremberg was revived in postcolonial contexts under the name of transitional justice, which repackages criminalization and victim’s justice in the language of human rights. The”
― Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities
― Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities
“Yet in Germany no less than the United States, the political meaning of genocide has never been widely understood. Both populations have, for the most part, denounced genocide as a racist act, but neither has recognized that it was also a productive one, whose outcome is the nation-states in which they live.”
― Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities
― Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities
“It is thus inevitable that the New Man of rock ’n’ roll was incarnated in the mid-seventies in the figure of Bruce Springsteen, a singer-songwriter whose principal merit was that of showing us the entire DNA map of American music. There is not one paradigm of modern music that he did not bend to comply with his personal narrative urgency: rockabilly, soul, rhythm and blues, punk, folk, country, pop, jazz . . . Springsteen does not change popular music, he incessantly reworks it, keeping its roots alive.”
― Bruce Springsteen: Like a Killer in the Sun: Selected Lyrics 1972-2017
― Bruce Springsteen: Like a Killer in the Sun: Selected Lyrics 1972-2017
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