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Scott Jonathan Scott 
How the Old World Ended 
The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800

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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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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 352 ● ISBN 9780300249361 ● Maison d’édition Yale University Press ● Publié 2020 ● Téléchargeable 3 fois ● Devise EUR ● ID 7260729 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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