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THE YEAR 1000 - VALERIE HANSEN KARTONIERT (TB)

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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