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How the Old World Ended
- The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800
Af: Jonathan Scott
Engelsk
Bogcover for How the Old World Ended af Jonathan Scott, 9780300243598
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Engelsk
Sider:
392
ISBN-13:
9780300243598
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
0300243596
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Udg. Dato:
12 nov 2019
Størrelse i cm:
24,0 x 16,1 x 3,7
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Oplagsdato:
12 nov 2019
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How the Old World Ended

- The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800
Af: Jonathan Scott
Engelsk
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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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Engelsk
Sider:
392
ISBN-13:
9780300243598
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
0300243596
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Udg. Dato:
12 nov 2019
Størrelse i cm:
24,0 x 16,1 x 3,7
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
12 nov 2019
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