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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World Brook V1
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    Condition
    Very Good: A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, ...
    Binding
    Paperback
    Product Group
    Book
    Weight
    0 lbs
    IsTextBook
    Yes
    ISBN
    9781596915992
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    About this product

    Product Identifiers

    Publisher
    Bloomsbury Publishing USA
    ISBN-10
    1596915994
    ISBN-13
    9781596915992
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    66842618

    Product Key Features

    Book Title
    Vermeer's Hat : the Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
    Number of Pages
    288 Pages
    Language
    English
    Topic
    Civilization, Individual Artists / General, Globalization, World, History / Baroque & Rococo, Modern / 17th Century
    Publication Year
    2009
    Illustrator
    Yes
    Genre
    Art, Political Science, History
    Author
    Timothy Brook
    Format
    Trade Paperback

    Dimensions

    Item Height
    0.8 in
    Item Weight
    10.6 Oz
    Item Length
    8.2 in
    Item Width
    5.5 in

    Additional Product Features

    Intended Audience
    Trade
    Reviews
    "Thanks to Brook's roving and insatiably curious gaze, Vermeer's small scenes widen onto the broad panorama of world history . . . The result is like one of Vermeer's trademark reflective pearls that magically reveals a world beyond itself. A more entertaining guide to world history - and to Vermeer - is difficult to imagine." - Ross King, author of THE JUDGEMENT OF PARIS, MICHELANGELO, and THE POPE'S CEILING AND BRUNELLESCHI'S DOME "From the epicenter of Delft, Brook takes his readers on a journey that encompasses Chinese porcelain and beaver pelts, global temperatures and firearms, shipwrecked sailors and their companions, silver mines and Manila galleons. It is a book full of surprising pleasures." - Jonathan Spence, author of THE DEATH OF WOMAN WANG "Elegant and quietly important . . . Brook does more than merely sketch the beginnings of globalization and highlight the forces that brought our modern world into being; rather, he offers a timely reminder of humanity's interdependence." - Seattle Times "[An] elegant and quietly important book" - San Francisco Chronicle "Brook utilizes the props in Vermeer's tableaux as starting points to journey into the cultural and economic world of the time: A teacup pours forth the history of the porcelain trade with China, while a felt hat is traced to beaver trapping in North America. It's a fascinating approach to cultural history, providing new ways of thinking about the origins of commonplace objects." - Entertainment Weekly, A grade, EW Pick, "Thanks to Brook's roving and insatiably curious gaze, Vermeer's small scenes widen onto the broad panorama of world history . . . The result is like one of Vermeer's trademark reflective pearls that magically reveals a world beyond itself. A more entertaining guide to world history - and to Vermeer - is difficult to imagine." --Ross King, author of THE JUDGEMENT OF PARIS, MICHELANGELO, and THE POPE'S CEILING AND BRUNELLESCHI'S DOME "From the epicenter of Delft, Brook takes his readers on a journey that encompasses Chinese porcelain and beaver pelts, global temperatures and firearms, shipwrecked sailors and their companions, silver mines and Manila galleons. It is a book full of surprising pleasures." --Jonathan Spence, author of THE DEATH OF WOMAN WANG "Elegant and quietly important . . . Brook does more than merely sketch the beginnings of globalization and highlight the forces that brought our modern world into being; rather, he offers a timely reminder of humanity's interdependence."" -- Seattle Times "[An] elegant and quietly important book" -- San Francisco Chronicle "Brook utilizes the props in Vermeer's tableaux as starting points to journey into the cultural and economic world of the time: A teacup pours forth the history of the porcelain trade with China, while a felt hat is traced to beaver trapping in North America. It's a fascinating approach to cultural history, providing new ways of thinking about the origins of commonplace objects." -- Entertainment Weekly, A grade, EW Pick
    Dewey Edition
    22
    Dewey Decimal
    909/.6
    Synopsis
    In this critical darling Vermeer's captivating and enigmatic paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought-from Delft to Beijing--were transformed in the 17th century, when the world first became global., In this critical darling Vermeer's captivating and enigmatic paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought-from Delft to Beijing--were transformed in the 17th century, when the world first became global. A Vermeer painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl. In another canvas, fruit spills from a blue-and-white porcelain bowl. Familiar images that captivate us with their beauty--but as Timothy Brook shows us, these intimate pictures actually give us a remarkable view of an expanding world. The officer's dashing hat is made of beaver fur from North America, and it was beaver pelts from America that financed the voyages of explorers seeking routes to China-prized for the porcelains so often shown in Dutch paintings of this time, including Vermeer's. In this dazzling history, Timothy Brook uses Vermeer's works, and other contemporary images from Europe, Asia, and the Americas to trace the rapidly growing web of global trade, and the explosive, transforming, and sometimes destructive changes it wrought in the age when globalization really began.

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