How The Old World Ended The Anglodutchamerican Revolution 15001800 Jonathan Scott by Jonathan Scott 9780300243598, 0300243596 instant download after payment.

A magisterial account of how the cultural & maritime relationships between the British, Dutch & American territories changed the existing world order – & made the Industrial Revolution possible

Between 1500 & 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 & 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 & culture, rather than the extraction of things.

England's republican revolution of 1649–53 was a spectacular attempt to change social, political & moral life in the direction pioneered by the Dutch. In this wide-angled & 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 & 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. 

Jonathan Scott is Professor of History at the University of Auckland. His previous publications include England’s Troubles & When the Waves Ruled Britannia.