Entangled Worlds

600–1350

Daniel G. König, Akira Iriye, Jürgen Osterhammel , Naomi Standen

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Belknap Press
08 July 2025

History; General & world history; Early history: c 500 to c 1450&1500

Series: A History of the World

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 600–1350 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.

Contributions by: Naomi Standen, André Wink
Edited by: Daniel G. König
General editor: Akira Iriye, Jürgen Osterhammel
Imprint: Belknap Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 52mm
Weight: 1.878kg
ISBN: 9780674047181
ISBN 10: 0674047184
Series: A History of the World
Pages: 1328
Publication Date: 08 July 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Daniel G. König 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. Jürgen 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.