Sublime
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This vast realm of geographical ignorance reduced European activity in the Outer World to an archipelago of settlements, mines and trading depots connected by a skein of pathways kept open only by constant effort.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
mercantilist
Nathan Lewis • Gold: The Once and Future Money (Agora Series)
Sir Henry Garraway,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
foreshadow a future filled with the seductively colonizing commodities of American modernity.
