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The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the Worldâand Globalization Began
Maybe someday
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15/100Critics
34/100Scholars
92/100Author:
Valerie Hansen
Publisher:
Scribner
Date:
April 14, 2020
From Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a history showing that bold explorations and daring trade missions connected all of the worldâs great societies for the first time at the end of the first millennium.
What The Reviewers Say
... fascinating.
... a gripping account of exploration and ingenuity, sweeping across the economic alliances and great networks of trade that connected disparate regions around the globe. By touching down in different parts of the world at that precise moment, Ms. Hansen reveals the social and economic changes that linked individuals and societies in astonishing ways.
Hansen argues quite persuasively about the role of the Norse in creating new ways of trade and exploring different parts of the world.
... breezily written but intensively researched. Hansen, who draws on recent investigations by her own global network of colleagues, may not quite convince you that her first age of 'globalisation' ever matched the worldwide density of contact enjoyed today – or rather, in our pre-pandemic yesterday. She does show how goods, people and ideas from far away helped lay the foundations of the world we still inhabit..
