Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to announce the publication of my book.
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began
Valerie Hansen
New York: Scribner (April 2020)
308 pages
ISBN: 978-1-5011-9410-8
Following the Vikings’ arrival in northeastern Canada, a new system of global pathways formed in the year 1000. Trade goods, people, and ideas moved along these newly discovered routes. For the first time an object or a message could have traveled across the entire world. True, we do not know—yet!—of any item that did so, but archeologists could still surprise us. Globalization affected the traders, explorers, and slaves who went to new places as well as those who stayed home.
Globalization was farthest along in Southeast Asia and China. Chinese workers shifted to full-time manufacturing of ceramics, textiles, and metal goods for their overseas customers. This first phase of globalization occurred long before the introduction of either steam or electric power. Chinese consumers at all social levels consumed vast quantities of spices, fragrant woods, and unusual plants. The forest peoples of Southeast Asia gave up their traditional livelihoods and completely reoriented their economies to work full-time growing spices and gathering forest produce for the Chinese market.
This is a book about world history, but three chapters, or about a third of the book cover Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea, and China.
Table of Contents
Prologue
The World in the Year 1000
Go West, Young Viking
The Pan-American Highways of 1000
European Slaves
The World's Richest Man
Central Asia Splits in Two
Surprising Journeys
The Most Globalized Place on Earth
Epilogue
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Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to announce the publication of my book.
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began
Valerie Hansen
New York: Scribner (April 2020)
308 pages
ISBN: 978-1-5011-9410-8
Following the Vikings’ arrival in northeastern Canada, a new system of global pathways formed in the year 1000. Trade goods, people, and ideas moved along these newly discovered routes. For the first time an object or a message could have traveled across the entire world. True, we do not know—yet!—of any item that did so, but archeologists could still surprise us. Globalization affected the traders, explorers, and slaves who went to new places as well as those who stayed home.
Globalization was farthest along in Southeast Asia and China. Chinese workers shifted to full-time manufacturing of ceramics, textiles, and metal goods for their overseas customers. This first phase of globalization occurred long before the introduction of either steam or electric power. Chinese consumers at all social levels consumed vast quantities of spices, fragrant woods, and unusual plants. The forest peoples of Southeast Asia gave up their traditional livelihoods and completely reoriented their economies to work full-time growing spices and gathering forest produce for the Chinese market.
This is a book about world history, but three chapters, or about a third of the book cover Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea, and China.
Table of Contents
Prologue
The World in the Year 1000
Go West, Young Viking
The Pan-American Highways of 1000
European Slaves
The World's Richest Man
Central Asia Splits in Two
Surprising Journeys
The Most Globalized Place on Earth
Epilogue
For further information: http://valerie-hansen.com/<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fvalerie-hansen.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7Ctracy.g.miller%40VANDERBILT.EDU%7C961abea79ff4488bbe6608d7e535520e%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C637229889492883489&sdata=XV0WGFokwqCXBIM%2BIZmNuCfy0NkxS2umqUTultSo%2B3k%3D&reserved=0>
