Oceania 800 1800ce

Author : James L. Flexner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1108823289

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Oceania, 800-1800CE by James L. Flexner Pdf

Over a span of 1000 years beginning around 800CE, the people of the Pacific Islands undertook a remarkable period of voyaging, political evolution, and cross-cultural interactions. Polynesian navigators encountered previously uninhabited lands, as well as already inhabited islands and the coast of the Americas. Island societies saw epic sagas of political competition and intrigue, documented through oral traditions and the monuments and artefacts recovered through archaeology. European entry into the region added a new episode of interaction with strange people from over the horizon. These histories provide an important cross-cultural perspective for the concept of 'the Middle Ages' from outside of the usual Old World focus.

Author : Chapurukha M. Kusimba
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009075435

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Swahili Worlds in Globalism by Chapurukha M. Kusimba Pdf

This Element discusses a medieval African urban society as a product of interactions among African communities who inhabited the region between 100 BCE and 500 CE. It deviates from standard approaches that credit urbanism and state in Africa to non-African agents. East Africa, then and now, was part of the broader world of the Indian Ocean. Globalism coincided with the political and economic transformations that occurred during the Tang-Sung-Yuan-Ming and Islamic Dynastic times, 600-1500 CE. Positioned as the gateway into and out of eastern Africa, the Swahili coast became a site through which people, inventions, and innovations bi-directionally migrated, were adopted, and evolved. Swahili peoples' agency and unique characteristics cannot be seen only through Islam's prism. Instead, their unique character is a consequence of social and economic interactions of actors along the coast, inland, and beyond the Indian Ocean.

Author : Derek Heng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108903479

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Southeast Asian Interconnections by Derek Heng Pdf

Since the late first millennium CE, Maritime Southeast Asia has been an inter-connected zone, with its societies and states maintaining economic and diplomatic relations with both China and Japan on the east, and the Indian Sub-Continent and Middle East on the west. This global connectedness was facilitated by merchant and shipping networks that originated from within and outside Southeast Asia, resulting in a trans-regional economy developing by the early second millennium CE. Sojourning populations began to appear in Maritime Southeast Asia, culminating in records of Chinese and Indian settlers in such places as Sumatra, Malay Peninsula and the Gulf of Siam by the mid-first millennium CE. At the same time, information of products that were harvested in Southeast Asia began to be appropriated by pockets of society in China, the India and the Middle East, resulting in the production of new knowledge and usages for these products in these markets.

Author : Shao-yun Yang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009397261

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Late Tang China and the World, 750–907 CE by Shao-yun Yang Pdf

In recent decades, the Tang dynasty (618-907) has acquired a reputation as the most 'cosmopolitan' period in Chinese history. The standard narrative also claims that this cosmopolitan openness faded after the An Lushan Rebellion of 755-763, to be replaced by xenophobic hostility toward all things foreign. This Element reassesses the cosmopolitanism-to-xenophobia narrative and presents a more empirically-grounded and nuanced interpretation of the Tang empire's foreign relations after 755.

Author : Amanda Luyster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009353151

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The Chertsey Tiles, the Crusades, and Global Textile Motifs by Amanda Luyster Pdf

While visual cultures mingled comfortably along the silk roads and on the shores of the Mediterranean, medieval England has sometimes been viewed – by both medieval and more recent writers – as isolated. In this Element the author introduces new evidence to show that this understanding of medieval England's visual relationship to the rest of the world demands revision. An international team led by the author has completed a digital reconstruction of the so-called Chertsey combat tiles (sophisticated pictorial floor tiles made c. 1250, England), including both images and lost Latin texts. Grounded in the discoveries made while completing this reconstruction, the author proposes new conclusions regarding the historical circumstances within which the Chertsey tiles were commissioned and their significant connections with global textile traditions.

Author : Yonatan Binyam,Verena Krebs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009116091

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‘Ethiopia’ and the World, 330–1500 CE by Yonatan Binyam,Verena Krebs Pdf

This Cambridge Element offers an interdisciplinary introduction to the histories of the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands from late antiquity to the late medieval period, updating traditional Western academic perspectives. Early scholarship, often by philologists and religious scholars, upheld 'Ethiopia' as an isolated repository of ancient Jewish and Christian texts. This work reframes the region's history, highlighting the political, economic, and cultural interconnections of different kingdoms, polities, and peoples. Utilizing recent advancements in Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies as well as Medieval Studies, it reevaluates key instances of contact between 'Ethiopia' and the world of Afro-Eurasia, situating the histories of the Christian, Muslim, and local-religious or 'pagan' groups living in the Red Sea littoral and the Eritrean-Ethiopian highlands in the context of the Global Middle Ages.

Author : Don J. Wyatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009020237

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Slavery in East Asia by Don J. Wyatt Pdf

In premodern China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, just as in the far less culturally cohesive countries composing the West of the Middle Ages, enslavement was an assumed condition of servitude warranting little examination, as the power and profits it afforded to the slaver made it a convention pursued unreflectively. Slavery in medieval East Asia shared with the West the commonplace assumption that nearly all humans were potential chattel, that once they had become owned beings, they could then be either sold or inherited. Yet, despite being representative of perhaps the most universalizable human practice of that age, slavery in medieval East Asia was also endowed with its own distinctive traits and traditions. Our awareness of these features of distinction contributes immeasurably to a more nuanced understanding of slavery as the ubiquitous and openly practiced institution that it once was and the now illicit and surreptitious one that it intractably remains.

Author : Patricia Blessing,Elizabeth Dospěl Williams,Eiren L. Shea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009393386

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Medieval Textiles across Eurasia, c. 300–1400 by Patricia Blessing,Elizabeth Dospěl Williams,Eiren L. Shea Pdf

This study considers the textiles made, traded, and exchanged across Eurasia from late antiquity to the late Middle Ages with special attention to the socio-political and cultural aspects of this universal medium. It presents a wide range of textiles used in both domestic and religious settings, as dress and furnishings, and for elite and ordinary owners. The introduction presents historiographical background to the study of textiles and explains the conditions of their survival in archaeological contexts and museums. A section on the materials and techniques used to produce textiles if followed by those outlining textile production, industry, and trade across Eurasia. Further sections examine the uses for dress and furnishing textiles and the appearance of imported fabrics in European contexts, addressing textiles' functions and uses in medieval societies. Lastly, a concluding section on textile aesthetics connects fabrics to their broader visual and material context.

Author : Shao-yun Yang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009214629

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Early Tang China and the World, 618–750 CE by Shao-yun Yang Pdf

For about half a century, the Tang dynasty has held a reputation as the most 'cosmopolitan' period in Chinese history, marked by unsurpassed openness to foreign peoples and cultures and active promotion of international trade. Heavily influenced by Western liberal ideals and contemporary China's own self-fashioning efforts, this glamorous image of the Tang calls for some critical reexamination. This Element presents a broad and revisionist analysis of early Tang China's relations with the rest of the Eurasian world and argues that idealizing the Tang as exceptionally “cosmopolitan” limits our ability to think both critically and globally about its actions and policies as an empire.

Author : Madi Williams
Publisher : Past Imperfect
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1641892145

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Polynesia, 900-1600 by Madi Williams Pdf

A historical overview and thematic examination of Polynesia (especially New Zealand and its outlying islands), 900-1600.

Author : Valentí Rull,Christopher Stevenson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030911270

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The Prehistory of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) by Valentí Rull,Christopher Stevenson Pdf

This book addresses the main enigmas of Easter Island’s (Rapa Nui, in the Polynesian language) prehistory from the time of initial settlement to European contact with a multidisciplinary perspective. The main topics include: (i) the time of first settlement and the origin of the first settlers; (ii) the main features of prehistoric Rapanui culture and their changes; (iii) the deforestation of the island and its timing and causes; (iv) the extinction of the indigenous biota, (v) the occurrence of climatic shifts and their potential effects on socioecological trends; (vi) the evidence for a cultural and demographic collapse before European contact; and (vii) the influence of Europeans on prehistoric Rapanui society. The book is subdivided into thematic sections and each chapter is written by renowned specialists in disciplines such as archaeology, anthropology, paleoecology, ethnography, linguistics, ethnobotany, phylogenetics/phylogeography and history. Contributors have been invited to provide an open and objective vision that includes as many views as possible on the topics considered. In this way, the readers may be able to compare different of points of view and make their own interpretations on each of the subjects considered. The book is intended for a wide audience including graduate students, advanced undergraduate students, university teachers and researchers interested in the subject. Given its multidisciplinary character and the topics included, the book is suitable for students and researchers from a wide range of disciplines and interests.

Author : Patrick Manning,Barry K. Gills
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781136723605

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Andre Gunder Frank and Global Development by Patrick Manning,Barry K. Gills Pdf

Containing previously unpublished material, a review of the legacy and work of Andre Gunder Frank

Author : Peter Buck (The Rangi Hiroa.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1415117276

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The Coming of the Maori by Peter Buck (The Rangi Hiroa.) Pdf

Author : Michele Bruni
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527581296

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China, the Belt and Road Initiative, and the Century of Great Migration by Michele Bruni Pdf

The book argues whether future migrations will be organized by destination countries or by criminal organizations; whether migrants will travel in a humane way or will continue to die along the road; whether properly trained migrants will boost the productivity of arrival countries or these countries will continue to squander money to build useless walls, possibly far from their border, and pay neighbours, not certainly in the top list from the human right perspective, to keep workers they need in concentration camps. It suggests that it is in the interest of more developed countries to stop denying their structural shortage of labour and start co-managing with one or more potential departure countries migration flows coherent with the quantitative and qualitative needs of their labour market. Economic fairness and sound economic thinking would also require destination countries to finance the training of potential migrants in the country of departure: in substance to build schools and vocational centres not walls. China represents an ideal case study in this regard not only because of its history, institutional setting, and international relationships but because in the next decades it will be the country most affected by the largest shortage of labour.

Author : Tim Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351398909

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Theory in the Pacific, the Pacific in Theory by Tim Thomas Pdf

Theory in the Pacific, the Pacific in Theory explores the role of theory in Pacific archaeology and its interplay with archaeological theory worldwide. The contributors assess how the practice of archaeology in Pacific contexts has led to particular types of theoretical enquiry and interest, and, more broadly, how the Pacific is conceptualised in the archaeological imagination. Long seen as a laboratory environment for the testing and refinement of social theory, the Pacific islands occupy a central place in global theoretical discourse. This volume highlights this role through an exploration of how Pacific models and exemplars have shaped, and continue to shape, approaches to the archaeological past. The authors evaluate key theoretical perspectives and explore current and future directions in Pacific archaeology. In doing so, attention is paid to the influence of Pacific people and environments in motivating and shaping theory-building. Theory in the Pacific, the Pacific in Theory makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how theory develops attuned to the affordances and needs of specific contexts, and how those contexts promote reformulation and development of theory elsewhere. It will be fascinating to scholars and archaeologists interested in the Pacific region, as well as students of wider archaeological theory.