![Cover image for The edge of the world : a cultural history of the North Sea and the transformation of Europe / [Michael Pye].](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&client=dakop&upc=&oclc=&isbn=9781605986999&issn=/LC.JPG "Cover image for The edge of the world : a cultural history of the North Sea and the transformation of Europe / [Michael Pye].")
Title:
The edge of the world : a cultural history of the North Sea and the transformation of Europe / [Michael Pye].
ISBN:
9781605986999
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Pegasus Books edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Pegasus Books, 2015.
©2014
Physical Description:
394 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm
General Note:
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.
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.
OCLC Number:
ocn905495054
Availability:
Apple Valley - Galaxie~1
