Cambridge World History: Volume 5, Expanding Webs of Exchange and Conflict, 500CE-1500CE (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Kedar, Benjamin Z.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316307946
• Artikelnr.: 42880839

Inhaltsangabe

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 Björn 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.