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03366aam a2200445 i 4500 001 D65956D8E91F11EBA30FCA7D3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210720010039 008 210212s2021 nyu b 001 0ceng 010 $a 2021006600 020 $a 1538701189 020 $a 9781538701188 035 $a (OCoLC)1238130277 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d AZZPT $d UKMGB $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e------ 082 00 $a 940.2/10922 $2 23 100 1 $a Wyman, Patrick, $e author. 245 14 $a The verge : $b Reformation, Renaissance, and forty years that shook the world / $c Patrick Wyman. 246 30 $a Reformation, Renaissance, and forty years that shook the world 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Twelve, $c 2021. 300 $a xi, 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Christopher Columbus and exploration -- Isabella of Castille and the rise of the State -- Jacob Fugger and banking -- GoÌtz 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. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 651 0 $a Europe $v Biography. 651 0 $a Europe $x Economic conditions $y 15th century. 651 0 $a Europe $x Economic conditions $y 16th century. 651 0 $a Europe $x History $y 1492-1517. 941 $a 7 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417015753.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409040945.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012024526.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010023440.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20221018010301.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20211106010212.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20210930010311.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D65956D8E91F11EBA30FCA7D3BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search