The World in the Year 1000

by Heitzman, James; Schenkluhn, Wolfgang; Heitzman, : James; Jaritz, Gerhard; Grotzfeld, Heinz; Chakravarti, Ranabir; Elvin, Mark; ?prajc, Ivan; Steuer, Heiko; Hoffmann, Gerhard; Brockmann, Andreas; Hall, Kenneth R.; Köhler, Ulrich; Orr, Leslie C.; Ciggaar,

• ISBN13: 9780761825616
• ISBN10: 0761825614
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-09
• Publisher: UPA

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