Description
Temporarily out of stock
Title: How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution,1500-1800
Author: SCOTT JONATHAN
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 15/10/2019
Imprint: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Price: $64.00
Publishing status: Active
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 commodities.
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 powerfully written account, Jonathan Scott argues that it was also a turning point in world history. In its wake, competition with the Dutch transformed the military-fiscal and naval resources of the British state. Within the resulting navy-protected Anglo-American trading monopoly, the demographic and commercial vibrancy of British North America played a crucial role in triggering the Industrial Revolution.
ISBN: 9780300243598
Pages: 392