HIST1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Johannes Vermeer, Timothy Brook, Delftware
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1980 22,000 employees: loss of personal many people either died, stayed, or were lost in battle, there was a flow of people to replace those people who died. See a picture of a boat in the view of delft. Herring boat the herring move because of the global cool and the dutch get to take over and develop ice boats. Tulips on the chinese style of porcelain: the tulip made its way in every type of art, the tulips were an obsession. Chinese observer talking about spaniards described in a zoological way. Word for ghost is the one applied to most foreigners. Red color they associate with the dutch: europeans do the same thing by defining people by their physical appearances. Chinese want silver from the europeans don"t want anything else. The chinese saw that they had better stuff than the people that wanted to trade with them: had land, textiles, people, food and did not need anything else.
