Expanding webs of exchange and conflict, 500 CE-1500 CE
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Expanding webs of exchange and conflict, 500 CE-1500 CE
(The Cambridge world history, v. 5)
Cambridge University Press, 2017
- : pbk
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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"First published 2015" "Paperback edition first published 2017"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Volume 5 of the Cambridge World History series uncovers the cross-cultural exchange and conquest, and the accompanying growth of regional and trans-regional states, religions, and economic systems, during the period 500 to 1500 CE. The volume begins by outlining a series of core issues and processes across the world, including human relations with nature, gender and family, social hierarchies, education, and warfare. Further essays examine maritime and land-based networks of long-distance trade and migration in agricultural and nomadic societies, and the transmission and exchange of cultural forms, scientific knowledge, technologies, and text-based religious systems that accompanied these. The final section surveys the development of centralized regional states and empires in both the eastern and western hemispheres. Together these essays by an international team of leading authors show how processes furthering cultural, commercial, and political integration within and between various regions of the world made this millennium a 'proto-global' era.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction Benjamin Z. Kedar and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
- Part I. Global Developments: 2. Humans and the environment: tension and co-evolution Joachim Radkau
- 3. Women, family, gender, and sexuality Susan Stuard
- 4. Society: hierarchy and solidarity Susan Reynolds
- 5. Educational institutions Linda Walton
- 6. Warfare Clifford Rogers
- Part II. Eurasian Commonalities: 7. Courtly cultures: Western Europe, Byzantium, the Islamic world, India, China, and Japan Patrick Geary, Daud Ali, Paul S. Atkins, Michael Cooperson, Rita Costa Gomes, Paul Dutton, Gert Melville, Claudia Rapp, Karl-Heinz Spiess, Stephen West and Pauline Yu
- 8. The age of trans-regional reorientations: cultural crystallization and transformation in the tenth to thirteenth centuries Bjoern Wittrock
- Part III. Growing Interactions: 9. Trade and commerce across Afro-Eurasia Richard Smith
- 10. European and Mediterranean trade networks Michel Balard
- 11. Trading partners across the Indian Ocean: the making of maritime communities Himanshu Ray
- 12. Technology and innovation within expanding webs of exchange Dagmar Schaefer and Marcus Popplow
- 13. The transmission of science and philosophy Charles Burnett
- 14. Pastoral nomadic migrations and conquests Anatoly Khazanov
- Part IV. Expanding Religious Systems: 15. The centrality of Islamic civilization Michael Cook
- 16. Christendom's regional systems Miri Rubin
- 17. The spread of Buddhism Tansen Sen
- Part V. State Formations: 18. State formation and empire building Johann Arnason
- 19. State formation in China from the Sui through the Song dynasties Richard von Glahn
- 20. The Mongol empire and inter-civilizational exchange Michal Biran
- 21. Byzantium Jean-Claude Cheynet
- 22. Early polities of the Western Sudan David Conrad
- 23. Mesoamerican state formation in the postclassic period Michael E. Smith
- 24. State and religion in the Inca empire Sabine MacCormack
- 25. 'Proto-globalization' and 'proto-glocalizations' in the middle millennium Diego Holstein.
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