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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Wyman, Patrick, author.     Subjects     Europe -- Biography.     Europe -- Economic conditions -- 15th century.     Europe -- Economic conditions -- 16th century.     Europe -- History -- 1492-1517.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Wyman, Patrick, author.       by title:      The verge : Reformat...         MARC Display

The verge : Reformation, Renaissance, and forty years that shook the world / Patrick Wyman. by Wyman, Patrick, author. New York : Twelve, 2021. Subjects Europe -- Biography.   Europe -- Economic conditions -- 15th century.   Europe -- Economic conditions -- 16th century.   Europe -- History -- 1492-1517. ISBN:  9781538701188 (hardcover) : 1538701189 (hardcover) : Description:  xi, 401 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Christopher Columbus and exploration -- Isabella of Castille and the rise of the State -- Jacob Fugger and banking -- Götz von Berlichingen and the military revolution -- Aldus Manutius and printing -- John Heritage and everyday capitalism -- Martin Luther and the Reformation -- Suleiman the Magnificent and the Ottoman superpower -- Charles V and universal rule. Requests:  0 Summary:  "The Verge tells the story of a period that marked a decisive turning point for both European and world history. Here, author Patrick Wyman examines two complementary and contradictory sides of the same historical coin: the world-altering implications of the developments of printed mass media, extreme taxation, exploitative globalization, humanistic learning, gunpowder warfare, and mass religious conflict in the long term, and their intensely disruptive consequences in the short-term. As told through the lives of ten real people -- from famous figures like Christopher Columbus and wealthy banker Jakob Fugger to a ruthless small-time merchant and a one-armed mercenary captain -- The Verge illustrates how their lives, and the times in which they lived, set the stage for an unprecedented globalized future. Over an intense forty-year period, the seeds for the so-called "Great Divergence" between Western Europe and the rest of the globe would be planted. From Columbus's voyage across the Atlantic to Martin Luther's sparking the Protestant Reformation, the foundations of our own, recognizably modern world came into being. For the past 500 years, historians, economists, and the policy-oriented have argued which of these individual developments best explains the West's rise from backwater periphery to global dominance. As The Verge presents it, however, the answer is far more nuanced"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 940.21092 Wy Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.21092 Wy Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.21092 Wy Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.21092 Wy Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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