The edge of the world : a cultural history of the North Sea and the transformation of Europe

Author

Michael Pye

Call Number

• 940.1 P995 (CEN)

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Edition

First Pegasus Books edition.

Publication Information

New York : Pegasus Books, 2015.

Physical Description

394 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Summary

Tells the story of how modernity emerged on the shores of the North Sea, uncovering a lost history of a thousand years rife with saints, spies, pirates, philosophers, artists, and intellectuals.

Notes

Maps on endpapers.

Contents

• The invention of money
• The book trade
• Making enemies
• Settling
• Fashion
• Writing the law
• Overseeing nature
• Science and money
• Dealers rule
• Love and capital
• The plague laws
• The city and the world.