Katrina Gulliver

Globalisation is scarcely new: it dates back to the year 1000

With their journeys to America centuries before Columbus, the Norsemen had already ‘closed the global loop’, according to Valerie Hansen

The Vikings discover America. Credit: Getty Images 
issue 11 April 2020
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  • The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the Globe — and Globalisation Began

    Valerie Hansen

    Viking, pp. 308, £20

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