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Article: Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World.(Book Review)
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- January 1, 2005
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Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World Reaktion, 1997; Cornell University Press, 1998 and The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003 By Jerry Brotton
Jerry Brotton, Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary and Director of the MA program in Renaissance Studies, has provided a vigorous interpretation of the Renaissance that challenges the nineteenth-century views by the formidable trinity of Jules Michelet, Jacob Burkhardt, and Walter Pater. In so doing, Brotton follows in the pioneering work of Walter D. Mignolo, Lisa Jardine, Deborah Howard and others who have questioned the humanistic premises from which ...