Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 2

By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism

While treasure fleets carried silver to Spain, far more ships were carrying men, fish and whale oil across the North Atlantic.

Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism

By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism

An important factor in the rise of the Dutch merchant-industrialist class, scarcely mentioned in many accounts, was the absolute dominance of the Dutch fishing industry in the North Sea.