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2248543The Vergehttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-verge/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1883481/f8a81ccd-27bf-417d-936b-5d06a7729a7f.jpg?v=638804838189870000204232MXNGrand Central PublishingInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>The creator of the hit podcast series <em>Tides of History</em> and <em>Fall of Rome</em> explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530, bringing to life the dramatic and deeply human story of how the West was reborn.</strong></p><p>In the bestselling tradition of <em>The Swerve</em> and <em>A Distant Mirror</em>, <em>The Verge</em> 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.</p><p>As told through the lives of ten real peoplefrom famous figures like Christopher Columbus and wealthy banker Jakob Fugger to a ruthless small-time merchant and a one-armed mercenary captain<em>The Verge</em> illustrates how their lives, and the times in which they lived, set the stage for an unprecedented globalized future.</p><p>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 Columbuss voyage across the Atlantic to Martin Luthers sparking the Protestant Reformation, the foundations of our own, recognizably modern world came into being.</p><p>For the past 500 years, historians, economists, and the policy-oriented have argued which of these individual developments best explains the Wests rise from backwater periphery to global dominance. As <em>The Verge</em> presents it, however, the answer is far more nuanced.</p>...2080882The Verge204232https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-verge/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1883481/f8a81ccd-27bf-417d-936b-5d06a7729a7f.jpg?v=638804838189870000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20219781538701171_W3siaWQiOiI4NWM5YzcxZi01MmE3LTRjZDEtYjI3Yy1jM2Q2MDVjMzdkZTAiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjI0NiwiZGlzY291bnQiOjI5LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjIxNywiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDUtMzFUMTU6MDA6MDBaIiwidG8iOiIyMDI1LTA2LTMwVDIzOjU5OjU5WiIsInJlZ2lvbiI6Ik1YIiwiaXNQcmVvcmRlciI6ZmFsc2V9LHsiaWQiOiIwYzVhYjljZC0yODczLTQ3NjktYWFiOS03MmEzMWNmM2RiODUiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjIzMiwiZGlzY291bnQiOjI4LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjIwNCwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDctMDFUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781538701171_<p><strong>The creator of the hit podcast series <em>Tides of History</em> and <em>Fall of Rome</em> explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530, bringing to life the dramatic and deeply human story of how the West was reborn.</strong></p><p>In the bestselling tradition of <em>The Swerve</em> and <em>A Distant Mirror</em>, <em>The Verge</em> 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.</p><p>As told through the lives of ten real peoplefrom famous figures like Christopher Columbus and wealthy banker Jakob Fugger to a ruthless small-time merchant and a one-armed mercenary captain<em>The Verge</em> illustrates how their lives, and the times in which they lived, set the stage for an unprecedented globalized future.</p><p>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 Columbuss voyage across the Atlantic to Martin Luthers sparking the Protestant Reformation, the foundations of our own, recognizably modern world came into being.</p><p>For the past 500 years, historians, economists, and the policy-oriented have argued which of these individual developments best explains the Wests rise from backwater periphery to global dominance. As <em>The Verge</em> presents it, however, the answer is far more nuanced.</p>...(*_*)9781538701171_<p><strong>The creator of the hit podcast series <em>Tides of History</em> and <em>Fall of Rome</em> explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530, bringing to life the dramatic and deeply human story of how the West was reborn.</strong></p><p>In the bestselling tradition of <em>The Swerve</em> and <em>A Distant Mirror</em>, <em>The Verge</em> 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.</p><p>As told through the lives of ten real peoplefrom famous figures like Christopher Columbus and wealthy banker Jakob Fugger to a ruthless small-time merchant and a one-armed mercenary captain<em>The Verge</em> illustrates how their lives, and the times in which they lived, set the stage for an unprecedented globalized future.</p><p>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 Columbuss voyage across the Atlantic to Martin Luthers sparking the Protestant Reformation, the foundations of our own, recognizably modern world came into being.</p><p>For the past 500 years, historians, economists, and the policy-oriented have argued which of these individual developments best explains the Wests rise from backwater periphery to global dominance. As <em>The Verge</em> presents it, however, the answer is far more nuanced.</p>...9781538701171_Grand Central Publishinglibro_electonico_d8e1086c-e9c1-3ab0-a8dd-308b20c616ca_9781538701171;9781538701171_9781538701171Patrick WymanInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/hachetteuk-epub-244446a4-3771-4e51-a05c-809f21a98d3a.epub2021-07-20T00:00:00+00:00Grand Central Publishing