Research Catalog

Title

The world in the year 1000 / edited by James Heitzman, Wolfgang Schenkluhn.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Heitzman, James, 1950-2008.
• Schenkluhn, Wolfgang.

Description

x, 328 pages : maps; 23 cm

Subjects

• Geschichte 1000
• 500-1500
• Aufsatzsammlung
• History
• Orient
• Europa
• Zivilisation
• Handel
• One thousand, A.D
• Islamic civilization
• Commerce > Medieval
• Civilization, Western
• Civilization, Oriental
• Civilization, Medieval
• Commerce > History > Medieval, 500-1500

Genre/Form

• History.
• Aufsatzsammlung.

Note

• "This volume is a collection of papers originally delivered by an international group of researchers at a conference organized in April 2000"--Cover, p. [4].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Regional Maps -- Introduction: World History and the Year 1000 / James Heitzman, Wolfgang Schenkluhn -- Natural orders, social orders -- Nature and Environment in Europe: Perceiving, Taming, Harnessing / Gerhard Jaritz -- The Use of Natural Resources in the Islamic World / Heinz Grotzfeld -- Natural Resources and Human Settlements: Perceiving the Environment in India / Ranabir Chakravarti -- Different transitions: The year 1000 in China's environmental history / Mark Elvin -- Perpetuating Celestial Order in an Earthly Environment: Astronomy in Mesoamerica around 1000 / Ivan Sprajc -- Regimes of production and exchange -- Minting, Silver Routes and Mining in Europe: Economic Expansion and Technical Innovation / Heiko Steuer -- Interdependencies between the Military and the Economy in the Near East and Egypt / Gerhard Hoffmann -- Temple Economy in South Asia / James Heitzman -- Trade Under the Sign of the Feathered Serpent: Mesoamerica's Route into the Second Millennium / Andreas Brockmann -- Ritual centers -- Temple Networks and Royal Power in Southeast Asia / Kenneth R. Hall -- The Ballgame at the Climax of the Feathered Serpent: A Religious Focus in Mesoamerica / Ulrich Kohler -- Gods and Worshippers on South Indian Sacred Ground / Leslie C. Orr -- The perception of self and others -- Byzantium and its Neighbors / Krijnie Ciggaar -- Islam: Self and Neighbors / Tarif Khalidi -- Chinese Perceptions of Southeast Asia / Billy Kee Long So.

ISBN

• 0761825614
• 9780761825616

LCCN

2003053319

OCLC

• ocm52431016
• 52431016
• SCSB-1343475

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library