The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Divided

From the fourth millennium BCE to the early second millennium CE the world became a world of cities. This volume explores this critical transformation, from the

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