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

by Mark Jarzombek

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032244143
• ISBN13: 9781032244143
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 316 Pages