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Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World

"Timothy Brook’s acclaimed work, Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World, uses individual paintings by Dutch master Johannes Vermeer to examine how global trade, cross-cultural exchange, and early capitalism reshaped material culture and daily life in seventeenth-century Europe. Introduction to Vermeer’s World and Global Horizons To understand the seventeenth century through the lens of Johannes Vermeer’s canvases is to witness a quiet revolution in human history. Traditionally, history writing has treated the seventeenth century through grand narratives of statecraft, religious conflict, and scientific discover..."

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