How the Old World Ended : the Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800.
Author/creator |
Scott, Jonathan, 1958- |
Format | Electronic and Book |
Publication Info | New Haven : Yale University Press, 2020. |
Description | 1 online resource (409 pages) |
Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
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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. |
Source of description | Print version record. |
Issued in other form | Print version: Scott, Jonathan. How the Old World Ended : The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2020 9780300243598 |
Genre/form | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 9780300249361 |
ISBN | 0300249365 |
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