Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power Evelyn Waugh ISBN-13: 9780333662847

ISBN-13: 9780333662847

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Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power Evelyn Waugh ISBN-13: 9780333662847A bold new interpretation of modern history as a struggle between three economic groups We are now living in an age of merchants, but it was not always so. The history of civilization, in large part, is a story of a battle between agrarian aristocracy, the military, and a class of learned experts, or priests. Yet in seventeenth century England and in the Netherlands, another group entered the m l e for power: the merchants. For the last four decades,