The Globalization of the Year 1000: Interview with Professor Valerie Hansen
Tides of History
Audible / Patrick Wyman
4.7 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Around the year 1000, merchants, explorers, and missionaries linked the world together from Newfoundland to China. Trade goods, people, and above all ideas flowed across a rich assortment of routes, connecting previously distant places into a single unit. This was the first instance of what we can call globalization, according to Professor Valerie Hansen of Yale, who wrote a compelling new book on the topic: The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began.
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| 0:16.2 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:17.2 | From Wondery, welcome to another episode of Tides of History. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm Patrick Weiman. |
| 0:21.1 | Thanks for joining me. |
| 0:22.6 | So every historian has times and places beyond their specialties that fascinate them. |
| 0:26.7 | I get to range more widely than most, but even so, their projects and periods I just haven't |
| 0:30.7 | gotten around to yet, despite how fascinating they are. |
| 0:33.6 | That's one of the things I love about doing interviews. |
| 0:35.3 | I get to tap somebody else's knowledge of a really cool thing. |
| 0:38.9 | In this case, it's global history. |
| 0:41.3 | We've got a great guest for you here today. |
| 0:43.1 | She's the Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University and the author of a |
| 0:46.9 | number of books, including The Silk Road, A New History, which I had the pleasure of |
| 0:50.6 | using a few years back when I taught an undergrad course on The Silk Road. |
| 0:54.1 | She has a new book coming out that I think you'll really enjoy. |
| 0:56.5 | This is what I think it's entitled The Year 1000, when explorers connected the world |
| 1:00.3 | and globalization began. |
| 1:02.0 | Professor Valerie Hansen, thank you so much for joining me today. |
| 1:04.5 | Oh, Patrick, it's a pleasure to be here. |
| 1:07.9 | So your book focuses on the world around the year 1000. |
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