Strangers Nowhere in the World : : The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe / / Margaret C. Jacob.
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&...
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