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Format: 1 online resource (xxiii, 724 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-316-28711-4 , 1-316-30794-8 , 0-511-66748-5

Series Statement: The Cambridge world history ; volume V

Content: Volume 5 of The Cambridge World History 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. 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.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2016). , Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of maps -- List of table -- List of contributors -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Contemporary views of the known world: cartography -- Contemporary views of the known world: written histories -- The Middle Millennium for today's historians -- Population and history -- Sporadic trans-civilizational contacts -- Regular trans-civilizational relations -- Overview of this volume -- Further reading -- Part I: Global developments -- 2 Humans and the environment: tension and co-evolution -- A three-realms model -- The great irrigation systems -- The nomadic realms -- European combining of rainfed agriculture with animal husbandry -- Three master stories -- Scenarios for the Middle Millennium: collapse, crisis, resilience, sustainability -- Cyclical elements in the history of the relationship between humans and the environment -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 3 Women, family, gender, and sexuality -- Women and family in the Islamic world and South Asia -- Women and family in Central and East Asia -- Women and family in Europe -- Religion and women -- Slavery and gender -- Sexuality -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- 4 Society: hierarchy and solidarity -- Economic foundations of societies in Eurasia -- Hierarchy and government in Eurasia -- Solidarities within the polities of Eurasia -- Religions in Eurasia -- Law in Eurasia -- Local society in Eurasia -- Class conflict in Eurasia -- Africa and the Americas -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 5 Educational institutions -- Confucianism and educational institutions in East Asia -- China -- Korea -- Japan -- Vietnam -- Buddhism and educational institutions in Asia -- South Asia -- East Asia -- Southeast Asia. , Christianity and the rise of the European university -- The Yeshiva and education in Judaism -- Mosques and madrasas in the medieval Muslim world -- Islam and educational institutions in Africa -- The Americas -- Conclusions and comparisons -- Further reading -- 6 Warfare -- The steppes and the agro-urban empires -- Horsemen, footmen, and empires -- China -- Persia and Byzantium -- The Arab explosion -- The "Empire of the Franks -- Mamluks and Mongols -- Mongols in China -- The Ming and the Indian Ocean -- Africa, the Atlantic, and the slave trade -- Europe's military revolutions -- Further reading -- Part II: Eurasian commonalities -- 7 Courtly cultures: western Europe, Byzantium, the Islamic world, India, China, and Japan -- Power and place -- Membership and function -- Competition and courtliness -- Cultural production in the court -- Court ceremonial -- The court and its critics -- Further reading -- Comparative studies: -- China -- Japan -- Islamic courts -- Byzantine courts -- Western Europe -- 8 The age of trans-regional reorientations: cultural crystallization and transformation in the tenth to thirteenth centuries -- Axial legacies: consequences and antinomies in the first millennium ce -- Cultural crystallizations and trans-regional reorientations -- Contexts of change -- Conditions and causes -- Diverging patterns and pathways of transformation -- An age of trans-regional reorientations -- Further reading -- Part III: Growing interactions -- 9 Trade and commerce across Afro-Eurasia -- The engines -- The passageways -- The cul-de-sacs -- The cataclysms -- Metamorphosis -- Further reading -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- 10 European and Mediterranean trade networks -- Merchants and their associations -- Commercial techniques -- Capital -- Currency -- Ships and navigation -- Fairs and markets -- State and papal intervention in trade. , Trade routes and networks -- The objects of trade -- Further reading -- 11 Trading partners across the Indian Ocean: the making of maritime communities -- Local trading communities -- Gujarat: trade and religion in a littoral community -- Trading centres on the Red Sea and trans-oceanic travel -- Interconnectedness of the Indian Ocean -- Further reading -- 12 Technology and innovation within expanding webs of exchange -- Scholarship on technology -- Change and continuity -- Discourses of technology -- Technical treatises, visual representations, and scale models -- Transmission processes -- Ruling powers and technological innovation -- Environmental factors -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 13 The transmission of science and philosophy -- Diffusion from one source or independent discoveries -- Legends about the diffusion of science -- Hubs of scientific knowledge -- Methods of transmitting science -- The politics of communicating science -- With whom should science be shared? -- Science and religion -- The transformation of science -- Further reading -- 14 Pastoral nomadic migrations and conquests -- Causes -- Regional developments -- The Eurasian steppes, semi-deserts and deserts -- The Near and Middle East and North Africa -- India -- Effects -- Further reading -- Part IV: Expanding religious systems -- 15 The centrality of Islamic civilization -- The regions of Islamic civilization around 1500: the new lands -- The far north -- The Turks -- The Indian Ocean -- The African interior -- The Atlantic -- The regions of Islamic civilization around 1500: the old lands -- The former Persian Empire -- The former Byzantine provinces -- The second wave of conquests -- The Arabian homeland -- The components of Islamic civilization -- Institutions -- Culture -- The origins of Islamic civilization -- Further reading. , 1. General historical surveys and reference -- 2. Regional historical surveys -- 3. Aspects of Islamic culture -- 4. Primary sources in translation -- 16 Christendom's regional systems -- The characteristics of Christian institutions -- Life in Christian polities -- Christian life in the Sasanian and Muslim polities -- Christian life outside the Abrahamic sphere -- Conclusions -- Further reading -- 17 The spread of Buddhism -- The early spread of Buddhism -- The spread of Buddhism between the fifth and tenth centuries -- Buddhism across Asia -- Buddhist networks and exchanges -- The multiple worlds of Buddhism, 1000-1500 -- The India-Tibet Buddhist world -- The East Asian Buddhist world -- The Sri Lanka-Southeast Asia Buddhist world -- Concluding remarks -- Further reading -- Part V: State formations -- 18 State formation and empire building -- The political landmarks defining the Middle Millennium -- Interactions between Inner Eurasia and adjacent civilizations -- State, empire and religion in Outer Eurasia -- Western Christendom -- East Asia -- India and Southeast Asia -- The Islamic world -- Byzantium -- Concluding remarks -- Further reading -- General -- Inner Eurasia and its neighbours -- Western Christendom -- China -- India and Southeast Asia -- The Islamic world -- Byzantium -- 19 State formation in China from the Sui through the Song dynasties -- Political legacy of the Northern Wei -- The Sui-Tang reunification -- The genesis of East Asia -- Internal challenges and the decline of Tang power -- The post-An Lushan transformation of Chinese government and society -- The Five Dynasties interregnum (907-960) -- Prosperity and crisis under the Song Empire (960-1279) -- The new policies of Wang Anshi -- The"localist turn" in the Southern Song -- Long-term trends in state-society relations -- Further reading. , 20 The Mongol Empire and inter-civilizational exchange -- Empire building -- Cross-cultural exchange -- Religious exchange -- Economic exchange -- The legacy of Mongol statecraft -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 21 Byzantium -- Upheaval, adaption, and stability from 500 to 750 -- The Empire's reorganization and recovery, 750-1000 -- Expansion and its limitations in the East and the West -- Developments of the eleventh century -- The attempt at balance under the Komnenoi -- Continuing problems and final collapse -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 22 Early polities of the Western Sudan -- The importance of oral tradition for West African history -- Cities and trade as a basis of state power -- Wagadu/Ghana -- The Mali Empire -- The kingdom of Gao -- Other states -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 23 Mesoamerican state formation in the Postclassic period -- Scholarly approaches -- Data and methods -- Mesoamerica in the Classic period -- Postclassic society: regional trajectories -- Central Mexico -- Yucatan -- Other regions -- Processes and connections -- Demographic and agricultural growth -- Migrations -- Polity growth and decline -- Cities and urbanization -- Growth of commercial networks -- Writing systems and literacy -- Postclassic Mesoamerica and world history -- Further reading -- 24 State and religion in the Inca Empire -- Sources of Andean history -- Inca origins in documentary sources -- The Inca and the Sun -- Conquest and diplomacy in Inca expansion -- Regions and households -- Religion in the Inca Empire -- Further reading -- 25 "Proto-globalization" and "Proto-glocalizations" in the Middle Millennium -- The local -- The "proto-global" forces -- Proto-glocal": Afro-Eurasian integration forces on the local scene -- Conclusions -- Index. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-108-40772-2

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-521-19074-6

Language: English

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