Three books that don't seem, by their titles, to be related, but read in tandem have an amazingly illuminating effect!!! What a happy accident!!! And from a Sinapore libary some more!!! Stephen's missive is a bit too much of a rant for me, but it does suggest that The Last Revolution IS the last because it will never end!!!! He would have done well to leave off 'The making of Modern Britain' me thinks.
Then there is James Hutton, a fellow Revolutionary, pulling the plug on "creation"!!!! Amsterdam, London and Edinburgh have to answer for the world as it is today, a work in progress.
The beginning of globalisation? Arguably.
1688... the year modern capitalism started? The birth of the bourgeoisie? The city men with Lutheran connections who once financed Cromwell got one over on Catholic France. Royalty learned to share power with wealth. Alas it never shared it with the People. Can we have another revolution and an elected head of state? Please.
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