作者简介
Valerie Hansen is a professor of Chinese and world history at Yale University. She is an accomplished author and scholar, having earned her BA from Harvard and her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of The Silk Road and The Year 1000. You can find her at Valerie-Hansen.com.
内容简介
In history, myth often abides. It was long assumed that the centuries im media tely prior to 1000 AD were lacking in any major cultural developments or geopolitical encounters, that the Europeans hadn’t yet discovered North America, that the farthest anyone had traveled over sea was the Vikings’ invasion of Britain. But how, then, to explain the presence of blonde-haired, blue-eyed people in Mayan temple murals in Chichen Itza, Mexico? Could it be possible that the Vikings had found their way to the Americas during the height of the Mayan empire?
Valerie Hansen, a much honored historian, argues that the year 1000 was the world’s first point of major cultural exchange and exploration. Drawing on nearly thirty years of research on medieval China and global history, she presents a compelling account of first encounters between disparate societies. As civilizations on at least five continents ventured outward, they spread technology, agriculture, and religion. These encounters, she shows, made it possible for Christopher Columbus to reach the “New World” in 1492, and set the stage for the process of globalization that so dominates the modern era.
For reader s of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens, The Year 1000 is an intellectually daring, provocative account that will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about how the modern world came to be. It will also hold up a mirror to the hopes and fears we experience today.
Valerie Hansen is a professor of Chinese and world history at Yale University. She is an accomplished author and scholar, having earned her BA from Harvard and her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of The Silk Road and The Year 1000. You can find her at Valerie-Hansen.com.
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