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The Year 1000

By Valerie Hansen

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The Year 1000

By Valerie Hansen

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"Typically wide-ranging, informative, and illuminating . . . a lovely book" Peter Frankopan When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it was the year 1000, when for the first time new trade routes linked the entire globe, so an object could in theory circumnavigate the world. This was the 'big bang' of globalization, which ushered in a new era of exploration and trade, and which paved the way for Europeans to dominate after Columbus reached America. Drawing on a wide range of new historical sources and cutting-edge archaeology, Hansen shows, for example, that the Maya began to trade with the native peoples of modern New Mexico from traces of theobromine - the chemical signature of chocolate - and that frozen textiles found in Greenland contain hairs from animals that could only have come from North America. Moreover, Hansen turns accepted wisdom on its head, revealing not only that globalization began much earlier than previously thought, but also that the world's first anti-globalization riots did too, in cities such as Cairo, Constantinople, and Guangzhou. Introducing players from Europe, the Islamic world, Asia, the Indian Ocean maritime world, the Pacific and the Mayan world who were connecting the major landmasses for the first time, this compelling revisionist argument shows how these encounters set the stage for the globalization that would dominate the world for centuries to come.
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Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
320
Release Date:
2021-02-04
Publication Date:
2021-02-04
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0241351278
ISBN13:
9780241351277
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
260 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
197 cm
Thickness:
25 cm

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