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\u201cThe myth of the \u2018European Middle Ages\u2019 dissolves in the ocean currents and trade winds of this stimulating account of early global connections.\u00a0 Bolstered by facts and enlivened by intriguing theories, Hansen\u2019s book presents a world of objects, ideas, people, animals, and know-how constantly on the move.\u00a0 A brisk and refreshing trip for us all.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.0.9″ text_font=”||||||||” header_font=”||||||||” header_4_font=”Nunito|700||on|||||” header_4_letter_spacing=”2px” custom_margin=”|||70px” custom_margin_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”fade” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
\u2014 Barbara\u00a0H.\u00a0Rosenwein, author of\u00a0A Short History of the Middle Ages\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Generations of Feeling<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.0.9″ width=”auto” use_custom_width=”on” custom_width_px=”1280px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_blurb use_icon=”on” icon_color=”#bdada0″ icon_placement=”left” image_icon_width=”70px” content_max_width=”800px” _builder_version=”4.13.0″ header_font=”||||||||” body_font=”Abhaya Libre|700|on||||||” body_text_align=”justify” body_font_size=”20px” body_line_height=”1.4em” text_orientation=”justified” icon_font_size=”70px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Valerie Hansen’s\u00a0The Year 1000\u00a0<\/span>is a whole new way of looking at the world. If you have the idea that medieval history was a time when there were few connections between those who inhabited different places on the map, this book will reorient you in the most stimulating way possible. Hansen brilliantly shows that in that long-ago newly globalized world the flow of crops, religion, slaves\u2014and more\u2014influenced societies as far apart as Africa and central America.<\/em><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.0.9″ text_font=”||||||||” header_font=”||||||||” header_4_font=”Nunito|700||on|||||” header_4_letter_spacing=”2px” custom_margin=”|||70px” custom_margin_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”fade” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
\u2014 Rana Mitter,\u00a0author of the internationally bestselling\u00a0Forgotten Ally<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_blurb use_icon=”on” icon_color=”#bdada0″ icon_placement=”left” image_icon_width=”70px” content_max_width=”800px” _builder_version=”4.13.0″ header_font=”||||||||” body_font=”Abhaya Libre|700|on||||||” body_font_size=”20px” body_line_height=”1.4em” text_orientation=”justified” icon_font_size=”70px” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Vivid and edifying\u2026 [Hansen] displays a remarkable lightness of touch while stuffing the book full of fascinating details, and easily toggles between the big picture and local affairs. This astonishingly comprehensive account casts world history in a brilliant new light.<\/p>\n
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\u2014 Publishers Weekly<\/em> (starred review)<\/strong><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.0.9″ width=”auto” use_custom_width=”on” custom_width_px=”1280px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_blurb use_icon=”on” icon_color=”#bdada0″ icon_placement=”left” image_icon_width=”70px” content_max_width=”800px” _builder_version=”4.13.0″ header_font=”||||||||” body_font=”Abhaya Libre|700|on||||||” body_text_align=”justify” body_font_size=”20px” body_line_height=”1.4em” text_orientation=”justified” icon_font_size=”70px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Valerie Hansen has not only fashioned a coherent and original vision of the world in the year 1000, in itself a remarkable feat of scholarship, but described it in a clear, concrete and absorbing narrative that will entertain and enlighten every reader.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.0.9″ text_font=”||||||||” header_font=”||||||||” header_4_font=”Nunito|700||on|||||” header_4_letter_spacing=”2px” custom_margin=”|||70px” custom_margin_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”fade” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
\u2014 R.I. Moore, author of\u00a0The First European Revolution\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0The War on Heresy<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_blurb use_icon=”on” icon_color=”#bdada0″ icon_placement=”left” image_icon_width=”70px” content_max_width=”800px” _builder_version=”4.13.0″ header_font=”||||||||” body_font=”Abhaya Libre|700|on||||||” body_font_size=”20px” body_line_height=”1.4em” text_orientation=”justified” icon_font_size=”70px” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Elegantly written and meticulously researched,\u00a0The Year 1000\u00a0<\/i>will take you on a whirlwind world tour that challenges the notion of a more recently hyper-connected globe. A must read for anyone wishing to understand the millennia-old roots of globalization.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.0.9″ text_font=”||||||||” header_font=”||||||||” header_4_font=”Nunito|700||on|||||” header_4_letter_spacing=”2px” custom_margin=”|||70px” custom_margin_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”fade” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
\u2014 Sarah Parcak, author of Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.0.9″ width=”auto” use_custom_width=”on” custom_width_px=”1280px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_blurb use_icon=”on” icon_color=”#bdada0″ icon_placement=”left” image_icon_width=”70px” content_max_width=”800px” _builder_version=”4.13.0″ header_font=”||||||||” body_font=”Abhaya Libre|700|on||||||” body_text_align=”justify” body_font_size=”20px” body_line_height=”1.4em” text_orientation=”justified” icon_font_size=”70px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
[Displays] the author’s unique fusion of firsthand, on-site investigations around the world and intensive research in far-flung libraries, archives, and museums.\u00a0 What’s more, all of this energetic, scholarly activity is combined with a compelling argument for a new hypothesis concerning the origins of globalization, a topic that could hardly be more pertinent to our own age.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.0.9″ text_font=”||||||||” header_font=”||||||||” header_4_font=”Nunito|700||on|||||” header_4_letter_spacing=”2px” custom_margin=”|||70px” custom_margin_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”fade” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
\u2014 Victor H. Mair, editor of The Columbia History of Chinese Literature<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_blurb use_icon=”on” icon_color=”#bdada0″ icon_placement=”left” image_icon_width=”70px” content_max_width=”800px” _builder_version=”4.13.0″ header_font=”||||||||” body_font=”Abhaya Libre|700|on||||||” body_font_size=”20px” body_line_height=”1.4em” text_orientation=”justified” icon_font_size=”70px” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Sweeping across the world from China to East Africa, Newfoundland to Yucatan, and Angkor Wat to Tikal, Valerie Hansen\u2019s story of the movement of peoples, products, religions, and ideas around the year 1000 makes it clear that globalization is nothing new, and that the civilizations open to the challenges of the unfamiliar were the ones that flourished. No one has told this story better or has been able to combine the latest scholarly research with such an exciting and\u00a0accessible narrative.\u00a0 This is how world history should be written.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.0.9″ text_font=”||||||||” header_font=”||||||||” header_4_font=”Nunito|700||on|||||” header_4_letter_spacing=”2px” custom_margin=”|||70px” custom_margin_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”fade” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
\u2014 Stuart B. Schwartz, author of\u00a0All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.0.9″ width=”auto” use_custom_width=”on” custom_width_px=”1280px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_blurb use_icon=”on” icon_color=”#bdada0″ icon_placement=”left” image_icon_width=”70px” content_max_width=”800px” _builder_version=”4.13.0″ header_font=”||||||||” body_font=”Abhaya Libre|700|on||||||” body_text_align=”justify” body_font_size=”20px” body_line_height=”1.4em” text_orientation=”justified” icon_font_size=”70px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Hansen takes us on an epic journey with seafarers, traders and pilgrims, women and men, across the globe some 1000 years ago. A bold and entertaining story, and ultimately, a celebration of difference\u2014and readiness\u2014for the unfamiliar.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.0.9″ text_font=”||||||||” header_font=”||||||||” header_4_font=”Nunito|700||on|||||” header_4_letter_spacing=”2px” custom_margin=”|||70px” custom_margin_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”fade” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
\u2014 Arezou Azad, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Humboldt Fellow at the Freie University of Berlin<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.0.9″ width=”auto” use_custom_width=”on” custom_width_px=”1280px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_blurb use_icon=”on” icon_color=”#bdada0″ icon_placement=”left” image_icon_width=”70px” content_max_width=”800px” _builder_version=”4.13.0″ header_font=”||||||||” body_font=”Abhaya Libre|700|on||||||” body_text_align=”justify” body_font_size=”20px” body_line_height=”1.4em” text_orientation=”justified” icon_font_size=”70px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
An absorbing read that makes a distant world feel near.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.0.9″ text_font=”||||||||” header_font=”||||||||” header_4_font=”Nunito|700||on|||||” header_4_letter_spacing=”2px” custom_margin=”|||70px” custom_margin_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”fade” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
\u2014 Francesca Trivellato,\u00a0Andrew W. Mellon Professor of History at Princeton’s\u00a0Institute for Advanced Study, and author of\u00a0The Familiarity of Strangers<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_blurb use_icon=”on” icon_color=”#bdada0″ icon_placement=”left” image_icon_width=”70px” content_max_width=”800px” _builder_version=”4.13.0″ header_font=”||||||||” body_font=”Abhaya Libre|700|on||||||” body_font_size=”20px” body_line_height=”1.4em” text_orientation=”justified” icon_font_size=”70px” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Valerie Hansen takes us on an informative and entertaining romp around the world of a thousand years ago, on everything from Viking longboats to camel caravans in Central Asia. Anyone who thinks that globalization is something new in life needs to read this book!<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.0.9″ text_font=”||||||||” header_font=”||||||||” header_4_font=”Nunito|700||on|||||” header_4_letter_spacing=”2px” custom_margin=”|||70px” custom_margin_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”fade” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
\u2014 Ian Morris, author of\u00a0Why the West Rules\u2014for Now<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.0.9″ width=”auto” use_custom_width=”on” custom_width_px=”1280px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_blurb use_icon=”on” icon_color=”#bdada0″ icon_placement=”left” image_icon_width=”70px” content_max_width=”800px” _builder_version=”4.13.0″ header_font=”||||||||” body_font=”Abhaya Libre|700|on||||||” body_text_align=”justify” body_font_size=”20px” body_line_height=”1.4em” text_orientation=”justified” icon_font_size=”70px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
In a feat of remarkable synthesis, Valerie Hansen leads us across African empires and Mesoamerican exchanges, along the Silk Road to Europe, and aboard ship with the multiethnic mariners of the Indian Ocean and the Vikings who followed the Volga to Byzantium.\u00a0 More than a history of global trade, this is a story of human encounters brought to life by vignettes and voices from every corner of a connected medieval planet.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.0.9″ text_font=”||||||||” header_font=”||||||||” header_4_font=”Nunito|700||on|||||” header_4_letter_spacing=”2px” custom_margin=”|||70px” custom_margin_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”fade” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
\u2014 Nile Green, author of\u00a0Sufism: A Global History<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_blurb use_icon=”on” icon_color=”#bdada0″ icon_placement=”left” image_icon_width=”70px” content_max_width=”800px” _builder_version=”4.13.0″ header_font=”||||||||” body_font=”Abhaya Libre|700|on||||||” body_font_size=”20px” body_line_height=”1.4em” text_orientation=”justified” icon_font_size=”70px” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Valerie Hansen’s “<\/span>The Year 1000″\u00a0<\/i><\/span>is a whole new way of looking at the world.\u00a0 If you have the idea that medieval history was a time when there were few connections between those who inhabited different places on the map, this book will reorient you in the most stimulating way possible.\u00a0\u00a0Hansen brilliantly shows that in that long-ago newly globalized world the flow of crops, religion, slaves\u2014and more\u2014influenced societies as far apart as Africa and central America.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.0.9″ text_font=”||||||||” header_font=”||||||||” header_4_font=”Nunito|700||on|||||” header_4_letter_spacing=”2px” custom_margin=”|||70px” custom_margin_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”fade” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
\u2014 Rana Mitter,\u00a0<\/b><\/span>author of the internationally bestselling\u00a0Forgotten Ally<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.0.9″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.0.9″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_blurb use_icon=”on” icon_color=”#bdada0″ icon_placement=”left” image_icon_width=”70px” content_max_width=”800px” _builder_version=”4.13.0″ header_font=”||||||||” body_font=”Abhaya Libre|700|on||||||” body_font_size=”20px” body_line_height=”1.4em” text_orientation=”justified” icon_font_size=”70px” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Valerie Hansen’s sweeping tour of the world in the year 1000 is revelatory and full of eye opening surprises. She tells a rich and fascinating story of the many ways that far-flung societies a millennium ago forged connections among themselves, a reminder that the forces of globalization that seem so potent today have been at work for centuries.\u00a0A masterly work of scholarship.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.0.9″ width=”auto” use_custom_width=”on” custom_width_px=”1280px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_blurb use_icon=”on” icon_color=”#bdada0″ icon_placement=”left” image_icon_width=”70px” content_max_width=”800px” _builder_version=”4.13.0″ header_font=”||||||||” body_font=”Abhaya Libre|700|on||||||” body_text_align=”justify” body_font_size=”20px” body_line_height=”1.4em” text_orientation=”justified” icon_font_size=”70px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Drawing on cutting-edge archaeological research from the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe, Hansen offers a highly readable account of the forging of global connections long before Columbus. Her suggestion that the quickening and thickening of communication has always brought<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>challenges as well as opportunities is particularly valuable at a time when we struggle with the implications of modern globalization.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.0.9″ text_font=”||||||||” header_font=”||||||||” header_4_font=”Nunito|700||on|||||” header_4_letter_spacing=”2px” custom_margin=”|||70px” custom_margin_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”fade” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
\u2014 Catherine Holmes and Naomi Standen, Editors, The Global Middle Ages<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_blurb use_icon=”on” icon_color=”#bdada0″ icon_placement=”left” image_icon_width=”70px” content_max_width=”800px” _builder_version=”4.13.0″ header_font=”||||||||” body_font=”Abhaya Libre|700|on||||||” body_font_size=”20px” body_line_height=”1.4em” text_orientation=”justified” icon_font_size=”70px” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
An exhilarating ride\u2026A lens to examine the arc of world cultures at a salient moment in human history, when men and women crossed westward across the stormy Atlantic and met their counterparts on the American continent.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.0.9″ text_font=”||||||||” header_font=”||||||||” header_4_font=”Nunito|700||on|||||” header_4_letter_spacing=”2px” custom_margin=”|||70px” custom_margin_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”fade” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
\u2014 William Goetzmann, author of Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.0.9″ width=”auto” use_custom_width=”on” custom_width_px=”1280px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_blurb use_icon=”on” icon_color=”#bdada0″ icon_placement=”left” image_icon_width=”70px” content_max_width=”800px” _builder_version=”4.13.0″ header_font=”||||||||” body_font=”Abhaya Libre|700|on||||||” body_text_align=”justify” body_font_size=”20px” body_line_height=”1.4em” text_orientation=”justified” icon_font_size=”70px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
The Year 1000\u00a0<\/i>takes readers on a worldwide adventure, joining fleets and caravans as they explore a remarkably globalized world\u2026.A lively read filled with surprises, The Year 1000<\/i> speaks to our globalized present in ways well worth heeding.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.0.9″ text_font=”||||||||” header_font=”||||||||” header_4_font=”Nunito|700||on|||||” header_4_letter_spacing=”2px” custom_margin=”|||70px” custom_margin_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”fade” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
\u2014\u00a0<\/b><\/span>Joanne B. Freeman, author of Affairs of Honor<\/i> and The Field of Blood<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_blurb use_icon=”on” icon_color=”#bdada0″ icon_placement=”left” image_icon_width=”70px” content_max_width=”800px” _builder_version=”4.13.0″ header_font=”||||||||” body_font=”Abhaya Libre|700|on||||||” body_font_size=”20px” body_line_height=”1.4em” text_orientation=”justified” icon_font_size=”70px” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
In a rich and fascinating account of the world around the year 1000, Valerie Hansen shows how people, goods, and ideas traversed vast spaces. Ranging by sea and land across six continents, she seeks out exciting and unexpected connections, showing that globalization is by no means new to our own time.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.0.9″ text_font=”||||||||” header_font=”||||||||” header_4_font=”Nunito|700||on|||||” header_4_letter_spacing=”2px” custom_margin=”|||70px” custom_margin_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”fade” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
\u2014\u00a0<\/b><\/span>David Abulafia, author of The Discovery of Mankind <\/i>and The Great Sea<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.0.9″ width=”auto” use_custom_width=”on” custom_width_px=”1280px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_blurb use_icon=”on” icon_color=”#bdada0″ icon_placement=”left” image_icon_width=”70px” content_max_width=”800px” _builder_version=”4.13.0″ header_font=”||||||||” body_font=”Abhaya Libre|700|on||||||” body_text_align=”justify” body_font_size=”20px” body_line_height=”1.4em” text_orientation=”justified” icon_font_size=”70px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Hansen teases out the unfamiliar links between Chinese markets, Baghdad fortunes, strange blonds on the walls of Maya temples, and Vikings on Russian rivers in a careful but accessible and truly global history.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.0.9″ text_font=”||||||||” header_font=”||||||||” header_4_font=”Nunito|700||on|||||” header_4_letter_spacing=”2px” custom_margin=”|||70px” custom_margin_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”fade” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
\u2014 Michael Pye, author of The Edge of the World<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_blurb use_icon=”on” icon_color=”#bdada0″ icon_placement=”left” image_icon_width=”70px” content_max_width=”800px” _builder_version=”4.13.0″ header_font=”||||||||” body_font=”Abhaya Libre|700|on||||||” body_font_size=”20px” body_line_height=”1.4em” text_orientation=”justified” icon_font_size=”70px” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Timely proof that globalization has a point of origin and a long history\u2026.[Hansen] offers in three hundred vivid pages the kind of deep texture that makes an age come alive.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.0.9″ text_font=”||||||||” header_font=”||||||||” header_4_font=”Nunito|700||on|||||” header_4_letter_spacing=”2px” custom_margin=”|||70px” custom_margin_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”fade” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
\u2014\u00a0<\/b><\/span>Paul Freedman, author of Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”My Books Section” _builder_version=”3.22″ use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_start=”#f4f4f4″ background_color_gradient_end=”#ffffff” custom_padding=”30px||30px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″ text_font=”Nunito|600|||||||” text_font_size=”15px” header_font=”||||||||” header_2_font=”Abhaya Libre|700|||||||” header_2_font_size=”64px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” header_4_font=”Nunito|700||on|||||” header_4_text_color=”#bda392″ header_4_letter_spacing=”2px” header_4_line_height=”1.8em” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”|||” animation_style=”fade” animation_direction=”right” animation_starting_opacity=”100%” header_font_size_tablet=”40px” header_font_size_last_edited=”off|desktop” header_2_font_size_tablet=”40px” header_2_font_size_phone=”” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|tablet” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
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