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Pye, Michael, 1946-
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Europe -- History -- 476-1492.
Europe, Northern -- History.
Europe, Northern -- Civilization.
North Sea -- History.
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Pye, Michael, 1946-
Europe -- History -- 476-1492.
Europe, Northern -- History.
Europe, Northern -- Civilization.
North Sea -- History.
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The
edge
of the
world
:
how
the
North
Sea
made
us
who
we
are / Michael Pye.
by
Pye, Michael, 1946-
Viking, 2014.
Call #:
940.1 P995e
Subjects
Europe -- History -- 476-1492.
Europe, Northern -- History.
Europe, Northern -- Civilization.
North
Sea
-- History.
ISBN:
9780670922321 (hc.)
Description:
394 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Maps on lining pages.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
This is a story of saints and spies, of fishermen and pirates, traders and marauders - and of
how
their wild and daring journeys across the
North
Sea
built the
world
we
know. When the Roman Empire retreated, northern Europe was a barbarian outpost at the very
edge
of everything. A thousand years later, it was the heart of global empires and the home of science, art, enlightenment and money.
We
owe this transformation to the tides and storms of the
North
Sea
. The water was dangerous, but it was far easier than struggling over land; so it was the
sea
that brought people together. Boats carried food and raw materials, but also new ideas and information. The seafarers raided, ruined and killed, but they also settled and coupled. With them they brought new tastes and technologies - books, clothes, manners, paintings and machines. In this dazzling historical adventure,
we
return to a time that is largely forgotten and watch as the modern
world
is born.
We
see the spread of money and
how
it paved the way for science.
We
see
how
plague terrorised even the rich and transformed daily life for the poor.
We
watch as the climate changed and coastlines shifted, people adapted and towns flourished.
We
see the arrival of the first politicians, artists, lawyers: citizens. From Viking raiders to Mongol hordes, Frisian fishermen to Hanseatic hustlers, travelling as far west as America and as far east as Byzantium,
we
see
how
the life and traffic of the seas changed everything. Drawing on an astonishing breadth of learning and packed with human stories and revelations, this is the epic drama of
how
we
came to be
who
we
are.
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