5 sentences with 'seventeenth'
Example sentences and phrases with the word seventeenth and other words derived from it.
• « To cite just one example, the price of grain rose by 630% in England over the course of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, driving peasants on the brink of subsistence to even greater despair. »
• « England was perhaps the most prominent example of a state in which the absolutist form of monarchy resolutely failed during the seventeenth century, yet the state itself emerged stronger. »
• « That said, there is no doubt that things had changed significantly in the course of the seventeenth century: governments were larger, better organised and more explicitly hierarchical in their organisation. »
• « These attitudes began to undergo significant changes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, mainly as a result of the incredible success of foreign corporations, groups that generated enormous wealth outside the auspices of mercantilist theory. »
• « The development of early capitalism was intimately related to overseas expansion - Europe was an important node of a truly global economy in the seventeenth century, and it was that economy that drove the development of capitalist and trading societies in places like the Netherlands and England. »