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Description

This volume is a collection of papers originally delivered by an international group of researchers at a conference organized in April 2000 by Dr. F. J. Brüggemeier and Dr. Wolfgang Schenkluhn. The World in the Year 1000 is organized in four thematic sections covering five world regions: Europe, the Islamic world, India, China, and Mesoamerica. All contributions in this volume are original works by many of today's leading scholars. Unlike most works on pre-modern world history, which follow a thesis over time, this approach suggests that fruitful avenues for comparative work become possible by focusing on a single point in time.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Regional Maps
Chapter 2 Introduction: World History and the Year 1000
Chapter 3 Natural Orders, Social Orders: Nature and Environment in Europe: Perceiving, Taming, Harnessing; The Use of Natural Resources in the Islamic World; Natural Resources and Human Settlements: Perceiving the Environment in India; Different Transitions:
Chapter 4 Regimes of Production and Exchange: Minting, Silver Routes and Mining in Europe: Economic Expansion and Technical Innovation; Interdependencies Between the Military and the Economy in the Near East and Egypt; Temple Economy in South Asia; Trade Unde
Chapter 5 Ritual Centers: Temple Networks and Royal Power in Southeast Asia; The Ballgame at the Climax of the Feathered Serpent: A Religious Focus in Mesoamerica; Gods and Worshippers on South India Sacred Ground
Chapter 6 The Perception of Self and Others: Byzantium and its Neighbors; Islam: Self and Neighbors; Chinese Perceptions of Southeast Asia; Other, or the Others? Varieties of Difference in Indian Society at the Turn of the First Millennium and their Historiog
Chapter 7 About the Contributors

Product details

Published Apr 09 2004
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 338
ISBN 9780761886105
Imprint University Press of America
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

James Heitzman

Anthology Editor

Wolfgang Schenkluhn

Contributor

James Heitzman

Contributor

Gerhard Jaritz

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Heinz Grotzfeld

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Mark Elvin

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Ivan ?prajc

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Heiko Steuer

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Kenneth R. Hall

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Ulrich Köhler

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Leslie C. Orr

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Krijnie Ciggaar

Contributor

Tarif Khalidi

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