The World in the Year 1000

✍ Scribed by James Heitzman (editor), Wolfgang Schenkluhn (editor)

• Publisher: UPA
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 339
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

The World In The Year 1000
Contents
Regional Maps
Chapter 1 Introduction: World History and the Year 1000
Part I Natural orders, social orders
Chapter 2 Nature and Environment in Europe: Perceiving, Taming, Harnessing
Chapter 3 The Use of Natural Resources in the Islamic World
Chapter 4 Natural Resources and Human Settlements: Perceiving the Environment in India
Chapter 5 Different transitions: The year 1000 in China's environmental history
Chapter 6 Perpetuating Celestial Order in an Earthly Environment: Astronomy in Mesoamerica around 1000
Part II Regimes of production and exchange
Chapter 7 Minting, Silver Routes and Mining in Europe: Economic Expansion and Technical Innovation
Chapter 8 Interdependencies between the Military and the Economy in the Near East and Egypt
Chapter 9 Temple Economy in South Asia
Chapter 10 Trade Under the Sign of the Feathered Serpent: Mesoamerica's Route into the Second Millennium
Part III Ritual centers
Chapter 11 Temple Networks and Royal Power in Southeast Asia
Chapter 12 The Ballgame at the Climax of the Feathered Serpent: A Religious Focus in Mesoamerica
Chapter 13 Gods and Worshippers on South Indian Sacred Ground
Part IV The perception of self and others
Chapter 14 Byzantium and its Neighbors
Chapter 15 Islam: Self and Neighbors
Chapter 16 Chinese Perceptions of Southeast Asia
Chapter 17 Other, or the Others? Varieties of Difference in Indian Society at the Turn of the First Millennium and their Historiographical Implications
About the Contributors