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Hardcover The Long Millennium: Affluence, Architecture and Its Dark Matter Economy Book

ISBN: 1032244143

ISBN13: 9781032244143

The Long Millennium: Affluence, Architecture and Its Dark Matter Economy

This book argues that long-distance trade in luxury items - such as diamonds, gold, cinnamon, scented woods, ivory and pearls, all of which require little overhead in their acquisition and were relatively easy to transport - played a foundational role in the creation of what we would call "global trade" in the first millennium CE. The book coins the term "dark matter economy" to better describe this complex - though mostly invisible - relationship...

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