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The Shape of the Modern World

How the present got the shape it has

Exchange · Industry · Nation · 3 chapters · 9 min read

Three changes that made the present look the way it does.

Free to read: every chapter below is open

How We Got Here

  1. 01The Columbian ExchangeOn the exchange that ran both ways for crops and one way for disease.
  2. 02Why Britain FirstOn why the interesting question is not the machines.
  3. 03Nations Are Younger Than You ThinkOn the most successful invented tradition of the last two hundred years.