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How the Old World Ended

The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800

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How the Old World Ended

By: Jonathan Scott
Narrated by: David de Vries
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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 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.

©2019 Jonathan Scott (P)2020 Tantor 17th Century 18th Century Modern Capitalism Socialism Latin America Dutch History
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A worthy story about the importance of the early market of the American colonies to developing Anglo-Dutch trade which in turn spurred on the Industrial Revolution.

Unfortunately it is told in quite a dry manner like someone who is defending their thesis for a PhD.

Far too academic to continue with.

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