Vermeer's hat : the seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world /
In one painting, a Dutch military officer leans toward a laughing girl. In another, a woman at a window weighs pieces of silver. In a third, fruit spills from a porcelain bowl onto a Turkish carpet. The officer's dashing hat is made of beaver fur, which European explorers got from Native Americ...
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London :
Profile Books,
2009.
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