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

by Valerie Hansen and Valerie Hansen

Book Overview

From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a groundbreaking work of history showing that bold explorations and daring trade missions connected all of the world's great societies for the first time at the end of the first millennium.

People often believe that the years immediately prior to AD 1000 were, with just a few exceptions, lacking in any major cultural developments or geopolitical encounters, that the Europeans hadn't yet...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501194100
• ISBN13: 9781501194108
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"