Free Download Mark Jarzombek, "The Long Millennium: Affluence, Architecture and Its Dark Matter Economy "
English | ISBN: 103224416X | 2023 | 316 pages | EPUB | 36 MB
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 to normative realities.