The world in the year 1000/ edited by James Heitzman, Wolfgang Schenkluhn.
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TextPublication details: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2004Description: x, 328 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN: 0761825614 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): One Thousand, A.D | Civilization, Medieval | Civilization, Western | Civilization, Oriental | Islamic Civilization | Commerce -- HistoryDDC classification: 909.1 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 909.1 HEI/W (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P22335 |
"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].
Includes bibliographical references.
Ch. 1. Introduction : world history and the year 1000 / James Heitzman and Wolfgang Schenkluhn -- Pt. I. Natural orders, social orders -- Ch. 2. Nature and environment in Europe : perceiving, taming, harnessing / Gerhard Jaritz -- Ch. 3. The use of natural resources in the Islamic world / Heinz Grotzfeld -- Ch. 4. Natural resources and human settlements : perceiving the environment in India / Ranabir Chakravarti -- Ch. 5. Different transitions : the year 1000 in China's environmental history / Mark Elvin -- Ch. 6. Perpetuating celestial order in an earthly environment : astronomy in Mesoamerica around 1000 / Ivan Sprajc -- Pt. II. Regimes of production and exchange -- Ch. 7. Minting, silver routes and mining in Europe : economic expansion and technical innovation / Heiko Steuer -- Ch. 8. Interdependencies between the military and the economy in the Near East and Egypt / Gerhard Hoffmann -- Ch. 9. Temple economy in South Asia / James Heitzman -- Ch. 10. Trade under the sign of the feathered serpent : Mesoamerica's route into the second millennium / Andreas Brockmann -- Pt. III. Ritual centers -- Ch. 11. Temple networks and royal power in Southeast Asia / Kenneth R. Hall -- Ch. 12. The ballgame at the climax of the feathered serpent : a religious focus in Mesoamerica / Ulrich Kohler -- Ch. 13. Gods and worshippers on South Indian sacred ground / Leslie C. Orr -- Pt. IV. The perception of self and others -- Ch. 14. Byzantium and its neighbors / Krijnie Ciggaar -- Ch. 15. Islam : self and neighbors / Tarif Khalidi -- Ch. 16. Chinese perceptions of Southeast Asia / Billy Kee Long So -- Ch. 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.
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