Saturday, January 2, 2010

James Burke : Connections, Episode 7, "The Long Chain", 1 of 5 (CC)

Cost of sending ships to bring home the good guys. They built a road, how much land you had to get a mortgage registered on it, and then go to one of the new "coffee houses" in London and buy yourself a piece-of-the-action. And handle the money? "The Bank of England." This started literally * a cup of coffee. At these places there was nothing to trade, from ships to girls, the land in America. [♫ ♫ ...] But the compromise that made Britain 'great' was the idea: kidnap Africans ...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib4io-gaRso&hl=en

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