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The World the Plague Made - The Black Death and the Rise of Europe (Hardcover)
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The World the Plague Made - The Black Death and the Rise of Europe (Hardcover)
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A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed
revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the
modern age In 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its
neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly
halved entire populations and caused untold suffering, but it also
brought about a cultural and economic renewal on a scale never
before witnessed. The World the Plague Made is a panoramic history
of how the bubonic plague revolutionized labour, trade, and
technology and set the stage for Europe's global expansion. James
Belich takes readers across centuries and continents to shed new
light on one of history's greatest paradoxes. Why did Europe's
dramatic rise begin in the wake of the Black Death? Belich shows
how plague doubled the per capita endowment of everything even as
it decimated the population. Many more people had disposable
incomes. Demand grew for silks, sugar, spices, furs, gold, and
slaves. Europe expanded to satisfy that demand-and plague provided
the means. Labour scarcity drove more use of waterpower, wind
power, and gunpowder. Technologies like water-powered blast
furnaces, heavily gunned galleons, and musketry were fast-tracked
by plague. A new "crew culture" of "disposable males" emerged to
man the guns and galleons. Setting the rise of Western Europe in
global context, Belich demonstrates how the mighty empires of the
Middle East and Russia also flourished after the plague, and how
European expansion was deeply entangled with the Chinese and other
peoples throughout the world.
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