Jonathan Scott is Professor of History at the University of Auckland. His previous publications include England’s Troubles and When the Waves Ruled Britannia.
“[A] fast-paced, fact-packed and readable account of Europe and its
empires from Reformation to Enlightenment”—Richard Whatmore, Times
Literary Supplement
“[An] intelligent, ambitious and widely researched study”—Jonathan
Clark, History Today
“Everything about this book is bravura: its conceptual originality,
scope and ambition, its rich and close reading of texts and
its brilliant writing. It exudes the joy of both discovery and
recovery and it exudes the power of startling
connections.“—John Morrill FBA, Emeritus Professor of British and
Irish History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Selwyn
College
"In Jonathan Scott we have a master of political and religious
history, and of the history of political thought,
who transcends geographical space and time periods so that
he can write a genuine 'histoire totale' of a critical phase
in world history. As he did in England's Troubles, Scott
in this stimulating book makes the very timely case for why,
in seeking the roots of England's remarkable early modern and
subsequent political and economic developments, an Anglo-Dutch
comparative framework is fruitful - far more so than one which
stresses exceptionalism or separateness from the rest
of Europe."—Richard M. Smith, Emeritus Professor of Historical
Geography and Demography and Fellow of Downing College
"Incredibly ambitious, wide-ranging and fluent. How The Old World
Ended is a good and stimulating (and sometimes annoying) read, and
it nails its colours to the mast in relation to the contemporary
significance of the developments it narrates."—Michael J Braddick,
Professor of History, University of Sheffield
“A superbly engrossing history of perhaps the most momentous period
since the Stone Age. By turns sweeping and intimate, it
demonstrates how the political events of that age – the English,
American, and French Revolutions – were never separate from the
social, economic, scientific, religious, and natural experiences of
those living through them. Anyone interested in how we got into our
present state will find things to provoke, excite, and infuriate on
every page. "—Adrian Johns, Professor of History, University of
Chicago
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