The world in the year 1000/ 
edited by James Heitzman, Wolfgang Schenkluhn. 
 - Lanham, Md. :  University Press of America,  c2004. 
 - x, 328 p. :  ill., maps ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> "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]. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> Introduction : world history and the year 1000 /  Natural orders, social orders --   Nature and environment in Europe : perceiving, taming, harnessing /  The use of natural resources in the Islamic world /  Natural resources and human settlements : perceiving the environment in India /  Different transitions : the year 1000 in China's environmental history /  Perpetuating celestial order in an earthly environment : astronomy in Mesoamerica around 1000 /  Regimes of production and exchange --   Minting, silver routes and mining in Europe : economic expansion and technical innovation /  Interdependencies between the military and the economy in the Near East and Egypt /  Temple economy in South Asia /  Trade under the sign of the feathered serpent : Mesoamerica's route into the second millennium /  Ritual centers --   Temple networks and royal power in Southeast Asia /  The ballgame at the climax of the feathered serpent : a religious focus in Mesoamerica /  Gods and worshippers on South Indian sacred ground /  The perception of self and others --   Byzantium and its neighbors /  Islam : self and neighbors /  Chinese perceptions of Southeast Asia /  Other, or the others? Varieties of difference in Indian society at the turn of the first millennium and their historiographical implications /  James Heitzman and Wolfgang Schenkluhn --   Gerhard Jaritz --   Heinz Grotzfeld --   Ranabir Chakravarti --   Mark Elvin --   Ivan Sprajc --   Heiko Steuer --   Gerhard Hoffmann --   James Heitzman --   Andreas Brockmann --   Kenneth R. Hall --   Ulrich Kohler --   Leslie C. Orr --   Krijnie Ciggaar --   Tarif Khalidi --   Billy Kee Long So --   B. D. Chattopadhyaya.  Ch. 1.  Pt. I.  Ch. 2.  Ch. 3.  Ch. 4.  Ch. 5.  Ch. 6.  Pt. II.  Ch. 7.  Ch. 8.  Ch. 9.  Ch. 10.  Pt. III.  Ch. 11.  Ch. 12.  Ch. 13.  Pt. IV.  Ch. 14.  Ch. 15.  Ch. 16.  Ch. 17. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0761825614 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>One Thousand, A.D.<br/>Civilization, Medieval<br/>Civilization, Western<br/>Civilization, Oriental<br/>Islamic Civilization<br/>Commerce--History
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>909.1  / HEI/W