Act 3. The Medieval Warm Period
Week 6. Oct 12-14. PRODUCTIVITY
Connected Empires, 900-1200: Abbasid, Ghaznavid, Rashtrakuta, Chola, Pagan, Srivijaya, Song
Theme: Productive powers connect imperial Persia, India, and China.
Reading:
Von Glahn, Richard. The Economic History of China, Chapter 6. pp. 208-255. Song Dynasty Website: “the most advanced society in the world.”
Victor Lieberman, Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 85-119.
Lynda Shaffer, “Southernization,” Journal of World History, 5, 1, 1994, 1-21. (online PDF)
Burton Stein, “South India: Some General Considerations of the Region and its Early History.” In The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. I, c.1200 – c.1750. Edited by Tapan Raychaudhuri and Irfan Habib, editors. Cambridge University Press, 1982 pp. 14-42). (online PDF 29pp)
Viola Allegranzi, “The Medieval Urbanism of Ghazni (Afghanistan, 10th-12th Centuries). A Cross-Reading of Textual and Material Evidence,” Afghanistan, 4,1, 2021, 1-18. (PDF online)
Simon Digby, “Economic Conditions before 1200,” in The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. I, c.1200 – c.1750. Edited by Tapan Raychaudhuri and Irfan Habib, editors. Cambridge University Press, 1982, pp. 43-47). (Online PDF 5pp)
“Chinese Ceramic Production and Trade” (OREAH) and Tamara Bently, “Trade in the East and South China Seas.” (OREAH). (20pp)
Reference:
Indian Ocean in World History Website.
Robert Hartwell, “A Revolution in the Chinese Iron and Coal Industries During the Northern Sung, 960-1126 A.D.,” The Journal of Asian Studies, 21, 2, 1962, 153-162. (JSTOR), (PDF file),
Robert Hartwell, “Demographic, Political, and Social Transformation of China,750-1500,” Harvard Journal of Asiaiatic Studies, 42, 2, 1982, 365-442.(PDF file)
John Chaffee, The Muslim Merchants of Premodern China: The History of a Maritime Asian Trade Diaspora, 750-1400, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2018, pp. 1-75.
Ronald Edwards, “Redefining Industrial Revolution.”, in economicdynamics.org. (48pp.)
James Anderson, “China’s Southwestern Silk Road in World History.”
Philip Curtin, Cross Cultural Trade and World History, Introduction. Kenneth Hall, Early Economic History of Southeast Asia, pp. 196-215.
Encyclopedia of Islam. Brill, Online. Second Edition.
Ranabir Chakravarti, Sindbad and India.
Abbasid western connections. Al-Kindi and Greek philosophy in Arabic falsafa
S. Goiten, Genizah Letters.
Cambridge University Digital Library, Cairo Genizah.
Alpers, E., & Goswami, C. (Eds.), Transregional Trade and Traders: Situating Gujarat in the Indian Ocean from Early Times to 1900. : Oxford University Press. Retrieved 18 Apr. 2020, from.
Week 6 Video 11. “Mobility and Productivity in the Medieval Warm Period.” Lecture with slides. Slides only (with links embedded).
Assignment 5: Due this week. 5-page PAPER#1. 5-pages, double spaced, in your GoogleFolder. Explain the spatial logic of Buddhist travels and territorial transformations, using specific examples. You can use any sources you clear with instructor in advance but please focus on readings and lecture material in this course. Remember: the travels of Buddhism involve much more than religion.
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