Theme Of Globalization In Throught Vermeer's Hat

Throught Vermeer 's Hat, Timothy Brooks describes many of the ongoing relations between the West and the rest of the world, specifically Eastern Asia. Brooks sites how globalization is not as modern as it seems and that the idea of globalization is very historic. An important theme in Vermeer 's Hat is the way that global trade transformed cultures all around the globe. It had greatly affected the local values and customs across all societies. In this paper I will be arguing on how circulations of tobacco, silver and beaver pelts completely changed local cultures and societies. One example of major circulation of commodities that changed local cultures and society is beaver pelts and fur. According to Brooks the Huron tribe, located in North America, had in endless supply of beaver pelts which had been requested by the French. The French did not want the pelts for the “lustrous outer fur, as Natives did” Brook pg …show more content…
Throughout this time was the real beginning of globalization on such a large scale and today we can not see a world without globalization. With globalization the world say items come into the lands that had never existed there once before and soon became impossible to live without. The Europeans say tobacco that became an economical product as well as a very cultural product. The Europeans also say beaver fur which was first seen to the Natives as an item that was lustrous while the Europeans say it as a way of fashion and major expedition to China. The copious amounts of silver that the Europeans had seemed completely unnecessary until for what became a major economic resource for the Chinese and a complete change of the global market. This time was the official time were the economy of one part of the world would completely affect another part of the world. Globalization had become a step where the world could never come back