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Authors: Niall Ferguson

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34. The Meiji makeover, 1:
Observance of His Imperial Majesty of the Military Manoeuvres of Combined Army and Navy Forces
, Yōshū Chikanobu, 1890

 

35. The Meiji makeover, 2:
Ladies Sewing
, Adachi Ginkō, 1887

 

36. James Dean unleashes the jeans genie in
Giant

 

37. Levi’s
®
London flagship store, 174–176 Regent Street

 

38. ‘They are afraid of freedom. / They are afraid of democracy… So why the hell are we afraid of them?’ The Plastic People of the Universe rock Soviet communism

 

39. Headscarves on dummies in Istanbul

 

40. In search of the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism: Max Weber in America

 

41. American cornucopia: The St Louis World’s Fair, 1904

 

42. The Word comes to Wenzhou: China Inland Mission Students with their teacher,
c
. 1900

 

43. The cartography of salvation: an American missionary’s map of South-east China

 

44. A scene of death and destruction from the Taiping Rebellion

 

45. Mass-producing scripture: the Nanjing Amity Bible Printing Company

 

46. Industrial Revelation: China today

 

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