Europe's Babylon: The Rise and Fall of Antwerp's Golden Age [First Edition] 9781643137780, 9781643137773

In the Age of Exploration, Antwerp was sensational like nineteenth-century Paris or twentieth-century New York. It was s

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Table of contents :
Contents

Cover
Title Page
Dedication
List of Illustrations
Maps
The Exception
Chapter 1: 1507
Chapter 2: The City as Idea
Chapter 3: Knowing Things
Chapter 4: The Garden of Knowing
Chapter 5: The Lesson
Chapter 6: The City Published
Chapter 7: The Unsettlement
Chapter 8: Money
Chapter 9: The Art in the Deal
Chapter 10: Listen to the City
Chapter 11: 1549
Chapter 12: The Meat Stall
Chapter 13: The Career
Chapter 14: Antwerp Is Lost
Chapter 15: The City Chooses
Photographs
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Notes
Index
Copyright

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