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The creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530, bringing to life the dramatic and deeply human story of how the West was reborn. In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, 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. 

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Patrick Wyman’s The Verge attempts to help answer what has become one of central historical questions of the twenty-first century: Why did the cultural backwater of medieval Europe rise to become the dominant power on the planet?While Wyman does not have the depth or scholarship of Jarred Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel—the first book I know of to phrase the enigma this way—that doesn’t mean it is uninteresting or not worth reading.Wyman chooses to focus on the history of four critical decades, 1490-1530. A contemporary analogy would be explaining modern history by focusing on the explosive changes of the 1960s.He then identifies ten key individuals whose life stories help explain the changes in European institutions at this time. The chapters aren’t really biographies, one rarely gets a sense of the person, but they are insightful nonetheless.Essentially, Wyman emphasizes banking and other financial institutions as giving Europe an edge. Coupled with the pillaging of New World peoples, Europe slowly gains ascendancy over long-lasting rivals like the Ottomans.Personally, I think Wyman underrates intellectual history and places too much emphasis on material goods, warfare and political actors. Isn’t it the Declaration of Independence that has inspired generations of revolutionaries worldwide? Haven’t many countries tried to imitate the Anglo-American form of democracy? Don’t the ideas of even a cultural outsider like Nietzsche continue to be read by the youth of many peoples?Despite these disagreements and descriptive imagery that borders on the cliche, I did get something out of this book and recommend it to all with an interest in modern European history.

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