Entangled Worlds
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Entangled Worlds
Far from a stagnant βMiddle Ages,β the years 600β1350 witnessed globalization and social innovation. Entangled Worlds explores long-distance trade in the Americas, cosmopolitan effects of Islamic and Mongol expansion, the spread of monotheist and Sinitic models of sociocultural organization, and the birth of settled political order in South Asia.
Leading historians and archaeologists offer a comprehensive introduction to the increasingly entangled worlds that spanned the globe between 600 and 1350 CE.
The period between the seventh and fourteenth centuries is hardly thought of as an era of globalization. Entire societies in the Americas, Australia, and Oceania developed in relative isolation from other parts of the world. Even on the interconnected landmass of Eurafrasia, many people had little to do with processes of transregional exchange.
Yet the period 600β1350 CE in fact witnessed an explosion of connectivity amid the consolidation of sophisticated approaches to human organization. Flows of people, goods, and ideas across regional boundaries intensified, changing lives at all social levels, from rulers to the enslaved. In the Americas, large cities and north-south trade networks took shape. The Arabic-Islamic conquests of the seventh and eighth centuries, along with the Mongol expansion of the thirteenth, tied together diverse polities from southeast Asia to sub-Saharan Africa. Regions also became more culturally and politically integrated: Latin-Christian models of social organization spread across Europe; the Sinitic written language drew eastern Eurasia into a common elite culture; and the accumulation of significant agricultural surpluses in the Indian subcontinent supported the emergence of a settled political order.
Entangled Worlds sees the completion of the magisterial six-volume set A History of the World, offering an authoritative introduction to a vibrant era of global history. The distinguished contributors make clear that there never was a stagnant "Middle Ages" wedged between Antiquity and Modernity but instead a period defined by decisive strides toward global connection, urbanization, and the cultural and political formations we live with today.
Series: A History of the World
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780674047181
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 04 March 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Illustration: 45 Maps
Contributors:
- General editor Akira Iriye
- General editor JΓΌrgen Osterhammel
- Contributions by Naomi Standen
- Contributions by Michael Borgolte
- Contributions by FranΓ§ois-Xavier Fauvelle
- Contributions by Christopher S. Beekman
- Contributions by Justin Jennings
- Edited by Daniel G. KΓΆnig
- Contributions by AndrΓ© Wink
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 52.0mm
Width: 162.0mm
Height: 235.0mm
Weight: 1878g
Pages: 1328
About the Author
Daniel G. KΓΆnig is the author of Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West: Tracing the Emergence of Medieval Europe and the editor of Latin and Arabic: Entangled Histories. He is Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Konstanz. Akira Iriye is Charles Warren Professor of American History, Emeritus, at Harvard University. JΓΌrgen Osterhammel is Professor of Modern History at the University of Konstanz. Christopher S. Beekman is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Denver.
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