Source: The End of the American Era (2002), Chapter four: "The Rise of Europe"
“American wheat, sold in Europe at lower prices than the domestic product, brought on a crisis in European peasant agriculture, sending a migrant stream of ruined peasants to seek new sources of livelihood in the burgeoning Americas. Ironically many of them made the journey westward on the same ships that carried to Europe the wheat that proved their undoing.”
Source: Europe and the People Without History, 1982, Chapter 11, The Movement of Commodities, p. 319.
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Source: The Age of Reform: from Bryan to F.D.R. (1955), Chapter I, part II, p. 44
“Traders (like the Phoenicians) carried their methods as well as their wares to Europe by ship.”
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Manucci, II, p. 451.,Manrique II, p. 272., Bernier, p.205., quoted from Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 7

1920s, Second State of the Union Address (1924)