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During the 17th century globalization and trade were becoming revolutionized, helping connect countries across the world. Through globalization and trade; people, ideas, goods, animals, and culture became connected across vast amount of land, oceans, and countries, creating a new world. This phenomenon was written about by Timothy brook in his novel Vermeer’s Hat, where he explains globalization through paintings by Johannes Vermeer. In his novel he challenges readers to look deeper into what objects in Vermeer’s paintings tell us about the history of globalization. Two paintings that where used in his book to help reveal globalization in the 17th century were, View of the Delft and Officer and Laughing Girl. He explains objects in these paintings …show more content…
In this painting Vermeer drew a man and a women siting at a table inside together. Also in the painting the man is wearing a large fancy hat and there is a large map hung up on the wall. Brook not only sees a lot of significance in Vermeer’s Hat that the officer is wearing, but in what the hat is made of. The rather large and fancy hat is made of beaver fur that originated from eastern Canada. In the 17th century traders in Eastern Canada traded things such as weapons with the natives in exchange for Beaver pelts and when French explorers were commissioned to find a route to China the pelts helped pay their way. Also along with the trading of these pelts many other goods were in exchange in North America. The Hat represents globalization at its finest because it shows a movement of people and goods all across the globe providing trade, expansion, colonization, and a movement of ideas and cultures. All of this helped connect the world together to help generate an understanding of what the world was like and ultimately helping connecting Europe to China. This connection would help grow globalization, trade and economies across the

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