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How the Old World Ended

Door Jonathan Scott

Categorie	Algemeen Geschiedenis
Boeknummer	#421654-YF5
Titel	How the Old World Ended
Auteur	Scott, Jonathan
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New Haven : Yale University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2020
ISBN10	0300243596
ISBN13	9780300243598
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original green boards, dust jacket, map, 8vo.
Samenvatting	A magisterial account of how the cultural and maritime relationships between the British, Dutch and American territories changed the existing world order - and made the Industrial Revolution possible Between 1500 and 1800, the North Sea region overtook the Mediterranean as the most dynamic part of the world. At its core the Anglo-Dutch relationship intertwined close alliance and fierce antagonism to intense creative effect. But a precondition for the Industrial Revolution was also the establishment in British North America of a unique type of colony - for the settlement of people and culture, rather than the extraction of things. England's republican revolution of 1649-53 was a spectacular attempt to change social, political and moral life in the direction pioneered by the Dutch. In this w... (Lees verder)ide-angled and arresting book Jonathan Scott argues that it was also a turning point in world history. In the revolution's wake, competition with the Dutch transformed the military-fiscal and naval resources of the state. One result was a navally protected Anglo-American trading monopoly. Within this context, more than a century later, the Industrial Revolution would be triggered by the alchemical power of American shopping
Pagina's	409
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 20,00

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