The World in the Year 1000,9780761825616

The World in the Year 1000

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ISBN13: 9780761825616
ISBN10: 0761825614
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-04-09
Publisher(s): UPA
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Regional Maps vi
Chapter 1 Introduction: World History and the Year 1000
James Heitzman and Wolfgang Schenkluhn
1(22)
Part I Natural orders, social orders 23(80)
Chapter 2 Nature and Environment in Europe: Perceiving, Taming, Harnessing
Gerhard Jaritz
25(10)
Chapter 3 The Use of Natural Resources in the Islamic World
Heinz Grotzfeld
35(13)
Chapter 4 Natural Resources and Human Settlements: Perceiving the Environment in India
Ranabir Chakravarti
48(18)
Chapter 5 Different transitions: The year 1000 in China's environmental history
Mark Elvin
66(21)
Chapter 6 Perpetuating Celestial Order in an Earthly Environment: Astronomy in Mesoamerica around 1000
Ivan Šprajc
87(16)
Part II Regimes of production and exchange 103(78)
Chapter 7 Minting, Silver Routes and Mining in Europe: Economic Expansion and Technical Innovation
Heiko Steuer
105(13)
Chapter 8 Interdependencies between the Military and the Economy in the Near East and Egypt
Gerhard Hoffmann
118(15)
Chapter 9 Temple Economy in South Asia
James Heitzman
133(21)
Chapter 10 Trade Under the Sign of the Feathered Serpent: Mesoamerica's Route into the Second Millennium
Andreas Brockmann
154(27)
Part III Ritual centers 181(74)
Chapter 11 Temple Networks and Royal Power in Southeast Asia
Kenneth R. Hall
183(31)
Chapter 12 The Ballgame at the Climax of the Feathered Serpent: A Religious Focus in Mesoamerica
Ulrich Kohler
214(11)
Chapter 13 Gods and Worshippers on South Indian Sacred Ground
Leslie C. Orr
225(30)
Part IV The perception of self and others 255(70)
Chapter 14 Byzantium and its Neighbors
Krijnie Ciggaar
257(20)
Chapter 15 Islam: Self and Neighbors
Tarif Khalidi
277(16)
Chapter 16 Chinese Perceptions of Southeast Asia
Billy Kee Long So
293(10)
Chapter 17 Other, or the Others? Varieties of Difference in Indian Society at the Turn of the First Millennium and their Historiographical Implications
B.D. Chattopadhyaya
303(22)
About the Contributors 325

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