M & D misc. Pynchon as 'right on' historically (again)

[Mark Kohut]

"neither Portugal nor Spain nor the Netherlands nor England
(before approx 1760) had projected their power to the farthest
corner of the earth and had such a powerful cultural impact on
"the Others" as Britain and France did in the nineteenth century"
           ----The Transformation of The World, Jurgen Osterhammel
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