The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began
Author: Hansen, Valerie
ISBN: 9780241351277
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 2021
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 195mm x 128mm x 20mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
An authoritative rethinking of global history by a leading Yale professor
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, this compelling revisionist argument shows how these encounters set the stage for the globalization that would dominate the world for centuries to come.
ISBN: 9780241351277
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 2021
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 195mm x 128mm x 20mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
An authoritative rethinking of global history by a leading Yale professor
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, this compelling revisionist argument shows how these encounters set the stage for the globalization that would dominate the world for centuries to come.
