Melissa Meriam Bullard is Professor of Renaissance and Early Modern European History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.  She has published extensively on the history of the Medici and Florence and recently on the reach of the Italian Renaissance into the nineteenth-century.  She brings an Atlantic world perspective of parallel Renaissances to Brooklyn’s history.

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• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Parallel Renaissances in the Atlantic World.- Chapter 3: Black Ball Business and Commercial Networks.- Chapter 4: First Steps Towards Brooklyn’s Renaissance.- Chapter 5: Symphony of the Arts.- Chapter 6:  Sociability, Civil War and a Diverted Renaissance.- Chapter 7: Culture of War Relief.- Chapter 8: Brooklyn’s Changing Complexion.- Chapter 9: Impact on the Arts.- Chapter 10:  A Fading Renaissance.- Appendix: Brooklyn’s Principal Patrons.

Melissa Meriam Bullard is Professor of Renaissance and Early Modern European History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.  She has published extensively on the history of the Medici and Florence and recently on the reach of the Italian Renaissance into the nineteenth-century.  She brings an Atlantic world perspective of parallel Renaissances to Brooklyn’s history.

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• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Parallel Renaissances in the Atlantic World.- Chapter 3: Black Ball Business and Commercial Networks.- Chapter 4: First Steps Towards Brooklyn’s Renaissance.- Chapter 5: Symphony of the Arts.- Chapter 6:  Sociability, Civil War and a Diverted Renaissance.- Chapter 7: Culture of War Relief.- Chapter 8: Brooklyn’s Changing Complexion.- Chapter 9: Impact on the Arts.- Chapter 10:  A Fading Renaissance.- Appendix: Brooklyn’s Principal Patrons.

Melissa Meriam Bullard is Professor of Renaissance and Early Modern European History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.  She has published extensively on the history of the Medici and Florence and recently on the reach of the Italian Renaissance into the nineteenth-century.  She brings an Atlantic world perspective of parallel Renaissances to Brooklyn’s history.

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• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Parallel Renaissances in the Atlantic World.- Chapter 3: Black Ball Business and Commercial Networks.- Chapter 4: First Steps Towards Brooklyn’s Renaissance.- Chapter 5: Symphony of the Arts.- Chapter 6:  Sociability, Civil War and a Diverted Renaissance.- Chapter 7: Culture of War Relief.- Chapter 8: Brooklyn’s Changing Complexion.- Chapter 9: Impact on the Arts.- Chapter 10:  A Fading Renaissance.- Appendix: Brooklyn’s Principal Patrons.