How the Old World Ended : The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800 Hardback
by Jonathan Scott
Hardback
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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 wide-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
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:392 pages, 9 maps
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:12/11/2019
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- ISBN:9780300243598
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:392 pages, 9 maps
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:12/11/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780300243598
