{"product_id":"how-the-old-world-ended-scott-9780300243598","title":"How the Old World Ended by Jonathan Scott","description":"\u003ch1\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution, 1500-1800\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eby Jonathan Scott\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEngland'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWithin this context, more than a century later, the Industrial Revolution would be triggered by the alchemical power of American shopping.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Bust-Down Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50695942668603,"sku":"0300243596","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/2077\/7531\/files\/9780300243598.jpg?v=1763242681","url":"https:\/\/bustdownbooks.com\/products\/how-the-old-world-ended-scott-9780300243598","provider":"Bust-Down Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}