How the old world ended : the Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution, 1500-1800 / Jonathan Scott.
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Yale scholarship online.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2019. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 392 pages) : maps (black and white) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300249361 (ebook) |
| DOI: | 10.12987/yale/9780300243598.001.0001 |