This century marks the dawn of the global world and continues to this day as new technology is introduced allowing us form stronger connections than ever before.
When Timothy Brook sat down to write, Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World, his goal appeared to be to explain the events that occurred during the seventeenth century. Furthermore, he wanted to express to the reader that during this time, the world was shifting in ways that those who living through it could never have imagined and it is only in recent history that we can recognize this as the beginning of