How the Industrial Revolution Changed the World: Interview with Economist Duncan Weldon
Tides of History
The Dutch Republic and the English Channel
A, i'm fascinated by the dutch because it's a story of what did happen, and then what didn't. A, so in the end, your larger, absolutest neighbors aren't simply capable of conquering you in the final anoce. H, one of the things that strikes me about your book is we could really easily tell this story as kind of straightforward upward movement - productivity gets higher, life spans get longer. But each of these rapid shifts are intensely disruptive, even catastrophically disruptive to the lives of people that live through them. And iit makes that period so interesting asolute yenyo am.
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