Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe

by Margaret C. Jacob

Book Overview

The mingling of aristocrats and commoners in a southern French city, the jostling of foreigners in stock markets across northern and western Europe, the club gatherings in Paris and London of genteel naturalists busily distilling plants or making air pumps, the ritual fraternizing of "brothers" in privacy and even secrecy--Margaret Jacob invokes all these examples in Strangers Nowhere in the World to provide glimpses of the cosmopolitan...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081222387X
• ISBN13: 9780812223873
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"