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

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The Long Millennium Affluence, Architecture and Its Dark Matter Economy

By Mark Jarzombek Copyright 2024
334 Pages 170 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

334 Pages 170 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

334 Pages 170 Color Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Introduction: Leading Questions

Part 1

  1. The Case of Musa I

  2. Dark Matter Affluence and Sweet Spot Systems

  3. Cross-Ecological Delivery Economies

Part 2

    1. "The Most Outlying Lands"

    2. The Sri Lanka Wealth Rush

    3. South Indian Emergence

    4. The Central Role of Borneo

    5. The Indonesian Seaway

    6. The Sub-Himalayan – Yungui Plateau Sweet Spot

    7. The East Africa Coastal Sweet Spot

    8. The North Sea Lattitude Sweet Spot

Part 3

  1. Beyond the Binary

  2. Structural Assymetries

  3. Institutions Without Institutionality

  4. Crossing Chieftain Geographies

　

Part 4

  1. Shrine Landscapes

  2. Feast and Dance

  3. Great Works

  4. Palace Universes

  5. Looking and Sounding the Part

　

Coda: Death by A Thousand Cuts

Biography

Mark Jarzombek is Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture in the Department of Architecture at MIT. In addition to his numerous articles and other works, he has published two textbooks: A Global History of Architecture with co-author Vikramaditya Prakash (2017) and Architecture of First Societies, a Global Perspective (2014). In 2013, Jarzombek and Prakash founded the Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative (GAHTC) through a multimillion dollar grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It supports scholars from around the world who are committed to infusing a global perspective into their academic and teaching practices.

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