Global Threads with Peter Frankopan

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A Bead Too Far: Rethinking Global Connections Before Columbus
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Peter Frankopan
May 21
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A Bead Too Far: Rethinking Global Connections Before Columbus
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As a historian of exchange, I am conscious that goods that travel long-distances, are shiny or unusual get all the glory: a lot of history is mundane, low-key and local.

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