| How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800 Contributor(s): Scott, Jonathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0300243596 ISBN-13: 9780300243598 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - History | Western Europe - General - History | United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775) |
| Dewey: 338.09 |
| LCCN: 2019941076 |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.3" W x 9.4" (1.80 lbs) 392 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western Europe - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 17th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |