Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global ... - Times Online

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    Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global ...Times Online, UK - 39 minutes agoSilver from the Spanish-American mines flooded Europe in the 17th century. The fruit of barbarous exploitation, it funded the trade in Asian luxuries. ...

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