Angelica’s Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy. Brendan Dooley. Cultures of Early Modern Europe. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. x + 202 pp. $114.

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 384-385
Author(s):  
Sarah Gwyneth Ross
Author(s):  
Paul A. Van Dyke ◽  
John E. Wills

Between 1750 and 1840, the world became more prosperous, more crowded, and more interconnected. State-centred patterns of distribution of resources, which were typical of many forms of empire and of the mercantilist orders of early modern Europe, were destabilized by these changes. New orders that gave more scope to private initiatives, including the new nations in the Americas and the new forms of organization, consumption, and production in Great Britain and its colonies, grew rapidly....


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