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by Timothy Brook

  • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
  • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
  • Release date: 02-13-13
  • Language: English

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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Author

Timothy Brook

Language

English

Length

8 hrs and 22 mins

Narrated by

Malcolm Hillgartner

Release date

02-13-13

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