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Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World, by Timothy Brook

“Stories of ethnic cleansing, human trafficking and illegal immigration, of corporate power and the uneven effects of free trade have become so prevalent as to define our understanding of the post-Cold War world. But, as Timothy Brook shows in his elegant and quietly important book, such stories have been with us for centuries, and our global world is much older than we typically think.” Read the review at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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