12 Top historical books like The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began by Valerie Hansen

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The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began

By: Valerie Hansen

3.69

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a groundbreaking work of history showing that bold e…

If you liked the historical plot in The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began by Valerie Hansen , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys of the Avian World

By: Candace Savage

3.87

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Who knew that crows are second only to humans as toolmakers and tool users, that they have complex … read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains

By: Robert H. Lustig

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"Explores how industry has manipulated our most deep-seated survival instincts."--David Perlmutter,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization, and Cultural Change, 950-1350

By: Robert Bartlett

3.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

From our twentieth-century perspective, we tend to think of the Europe of the past as a colonizer, … read more

Similar categories in Robert Bartlett's The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization, and Cultural Change, 950-1350 book and Valerie Hansen's The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began

  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
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4. The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings

By: Lars Brownworth

4.25

Format: 127 pages,

In AD 793 Norse warriors struck the English isle of Lindisfarne and laid waste to it. Wave after wa… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • audiobook

5. The Celts

By: Alice Roberts , Neil Oliver

4.70

Format: 84 pages,

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6. Ancient Worlds: An Epic History of East and West

By: None

4.12

Format: 80 pages,

'A bold and imaginative page-turner that challenges ideas about the world of antiquity.' Peter Fran… read more

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7. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

By: Neil Price

4.18

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • audiobook
"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

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8. The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

By: Marie Favereau

3.84

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

An epic history of the Mongols as we have never seen them―not just conquerors but also city builder… read more

Similar categories in Marie Favereau's The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World book and Valerie Hansen's The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began

  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • audiobook
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9. Persians: The Age of the Great Kings

By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

4.06

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia  The Achaemen… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road

By: Cat Jarman

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • audiobook
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11. Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages

By: Matthew Green

3.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale o… read more

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  • history
  • travel
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • audiobook
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12. The Pagan World: Ancient Religions Before Christianity

By: Hans-Friedrich Mueller

3.75

Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio

In The Pagan World: Ancient Religions Before Christianity, you will meet the fascinating, ancient p… read more

Similar categories in Hans-Friedrich Mueller's The Pagan World: Ancient Religions Before Christianity book and Valerie Hansen's The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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13. Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World

By: Tobias Hürter

4.42

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

The epic true story of how a global team of physics luminaries—Einstein, Curie, Schrödinger, and mo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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14. The Earth Transformed: An Untold History

By: Peter Frankopan

3.94

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • world history
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15. The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization

By: Roland Ennos

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking examination of the role that wood and trees have played in our global ecosystem—in… read more

Similar categories in Roland Ennos's The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization book and Valerie Hansen's The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began

  • history
  • world history
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
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16. The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began

By: Valerie Hansen

3.69

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a groundbreaking work of history showing that bold e… read more

Similar categories in Valerie Hansen's The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began book and Valerie Hansen's The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began

  • history
  • world history
  • travel
  • historical
  • medieval
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • economics
  • audiobook
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17. A Short History of the World in 50 Lies

By: Natasha Tidd

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Taking readers on a global journey through human history, historian Natasha Tidd examines how lies … read more

Similar categories in Natasha Tidd's A Short History of the World in 50 Lies book and Valerie Hansen's The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began

  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. The Emperor Charlemagne

By: E.R. Chamberlin

4.02

Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition

An authoritative biography of the greatest ruler of the medieval period. The Emperor Charlemagne is… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • audiobook
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19. The Celts: A Sceptical History

By: Simon Jenkins

3.04

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The history of the Celts is the history of a misnomer. There has never been a distinct people, r… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

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Robert H. Lustig

4.11

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Lars Brownworth

4.25

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Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

Neil Price

4.18

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3.84

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Dorsey Armstrong

4.32

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Thomas L. Pangle

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Elizabeth Vandiver

4.12

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Gary A. Rendsburg

4.06

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