Year 1000 (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (B-format paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
320
Utgivningsdatum
2021-02-04
Förlag
Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensioner
25 x 197 x 131 mm
Vikt
260 g
ISBN
9780241351277

Year 1000

When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began

av Valerie Hansen
Häftad,  Engelska, 2021-02-04
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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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Valerie Hansen is Professor of History at Yale University and has taught on China and world history for thirty years. She is the author of several acclaimed works, including The Open Empire: A History of China to 1600 and The Silk Road: A New History, and co-author of Voyages in World History.

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