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The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began

Door Valerie Hansen

Categorie	Ontdekkingsreizen & Expedities
Boeknummer	#330051-VB30
Titel	The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began
Auteur	Hansen, Valerie
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Viking Books
Jaar van uitgave	2020
ISBN10	024135126X
ISBN13	9780241351260
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original blue boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with colour photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting	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 t... (Lees verder)hat could only have come from North America. 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. Provocative . . . a smart, broad-ranging survey of the global Middle Ages that is learned, thought-provoking - and perfectly tuned to our times Dan Jones, Sunday Times Typically wide-ranging, informative, and illuminating, Valerie Hansen has written a lovely book that puts together the pieces of the global jigsaw puzzle of a millennium ago Peter Frankopan, author of the Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Pagina's	308
Conditie	Goed
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