Cover Series Page Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction / Daniel G. König One. Structure and History in the Americas: Closed and Interconnected? / Christopher S. Beekman, Justin Jennings, and Michael D. Mathiowetz Introduction 1. Tools and Datasets 2. Environmental Preconditions of Connectivity and Human Strategies to Overcome Them 3. American Macroregions: Societal Organization and Interaction 4.
Connectivity and Entanglement in the Americas Two. The Emergence of an Islamic Commonwealth / Daniel G. König Introduction 1. Preconditions of Muslim Expansion 2. The Protoglobal Expansion of Muslims 3. The Genesis of an Imperial Culture: Transregional Standardization and Its Limits 4. Imperial Disintegration and the Emergence of the Islamic Commonwealth 5. The Islamic Commonwealth and Its Legacy Three.
The Continentalization of Europe / Michael Borgolte Introduction: Europe as Part of the Ecumene 1. Europe around 600 2. Transportation Infrastructure and Patterns of Settlement 3. Mobilities, or Overcoming Isolation 4. Migrations and Cultural Change 5. Marco Polo, the Plague, and the Uncertainty of Globalization around 1350 Four. Sub-Saharan African Societies in Conversation with Islam / François-Xavier Fauvelle Introduction 1. Christian Africas Challenged by Islam 2.
New African "Shores": The Sahelian Ribbon and the Swahili Coast 3. Trans-Saharan Relationships: Agents and Routes 4. Circulations, Transformations, and Expectations: A Commercial Conversation between Sub-Saharan Africa and the Wider World 5. Broker States of Medieval Africa 6. Narrative Agency, Ambivalence, and the Indeterminacy of Sub-Saharan African Broker States 7. Epilogue: Entangled Dynamics across (and beyond) the Continent Five. The Creation of a Settled Civilization and the Rise of Islam in Medieval India / André Wink Introduction 1. Agriculture, Settled Society, Kingship, and Religion 2.
India and the Nomadic Frontier 3. The Maritime Frontier: Seafaring, Trade, and Politics in the Indian Ocean 4. The Rise of Islam Six. Devotions, Followership, and Communities in Eastern Eurasia / Naomi Standen Introduction 1. Definitions and Characteristics of Eastern Eurasia 2. Networks into the Eighth Century: Devotions, Politics, and Exchanges 3. Buddhisms Everywhere: The Common Pool and Diversity from the Eighth Century 4. Intensified Interactions: Localization and Communication in the Tenth to Twelfth Centuries 5.
Transformations, Expansions, and Conquests in the Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries: Reshaping Eastern Eurasia 6. Eastern Eurasia Reimagined Notes Selected Bibliography Contributors Index.