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The Silk Road: A New History by Valerie Hansen
$34.95 AUD
Category: Asian
The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from China to Rome. The reality was different--and far more interesting--as revealed in ...Show more
The Year 1000 - When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began by Valerie Hansen
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
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. In history, myth often abides. It was long assumed that the centuri ...Show more
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began by Valerie Hansen
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
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. T ...Show more
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