Valerie Hansen (1) (1958–)
Autore di The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World―and Globalization Began
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Valerie Hansen is the Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University, where she teaches world and Chinese history. An accomplished scholar and author, she traveled to nearly twenty countries to research The Year 1000. She is also the author of The Silk Road: New History and The Open mostra altro Empire. mostra meno
Opere di Valerie Hansen
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Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity: Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250–750 (2018) — Collaboratore — 9 copie
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- Nome legale
- Hansen, Valerie
- Altri nomi
- Hansen, Ruilewei
- Data di nascita
- 1958-07-18
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Istruzione
- University of Pennsylvania
- Attività lavorative
- historian
- Organizzazioni
- Yale University
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- Opere
- 12
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 748
- Popolarità
- #33,983
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 15
- ISBN
- 332
- Lingue
- 7
- Preferito da
- 2
Hansen reviews the vast array of data describing international trade of the time. Archeology has shown that trade had flourished in Afro-Eurasia since ancient times. I won’t go into any depth of description here, other than to repeat (because I was not aware of it) that African monarchs initiated trade on their own, across the Sahara into the Middle East, and across the Indian Ocean with Southeast Asia and China. In addition to that, in the Americas, a high volume of commercial trade traveled from the Incan empire, through the Aztec territories, and into Mississippi River sites in the present-day United States.
I have always been interested in trade between nations as a way for merchants to do business, and for ideas to travel and find new adherents, or at least become known if not accepted. Hansen makes the persuasive argument that the practice of monarchs converting to and supporting what she calls “universal religions” in the lands they control resulted directly in the religious blocs in the world today. Europe operated under the sway of the Catholic Church, either Roman or Byzantine, Islam ruled through Northern Africa through to Central Asia, and a patchwork of Hinduism and Buddhism held sway in Southern and Far Eastern Asia. All these choices occurred in the period between roughly 950 to 1100.
Dr. Hansen’s effort succeeds in enumerating the goods which have continually changed hands since the dawn of human history. Her task was to winnow this ancient litany down to a manageable length, and in this I think she succeeds. She has written a book for the general public, easily understood by the modern reader. If you are interested in the history of economic globalization, this well-rounded and disciplined survey would be an excellent place to start.
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