Erik Hermans (PhD, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU) is an independent scholar, currently based in Washington, DC.

The present volume, therefore, is exceptionally welcome in that it brings together research by scholars with specialities in a verywide range of geo-political contexts and academic traditions. The decision by Erik Hermans, the editor of this volume, to limit itsscope to the relatively brief period of c. 600 AD to c. 900 AD, has also proven quite fortuitous in that many of the essays provideoverlapping coverage of the same questions and phenomena, but from different geo-political perspectives.[...]Overall, this is an exceptionally valuable volume, which will be of use to scholars across a wide sweep of fields. Many of the individual essays also will provide an easily accessible entrée to the political histories of non-western societies to graduate and even undergraduate students.

• Introduction, ERIK HERMANSREGIONS1. East Africa, MARK HORTON2. South Asia, KENNETH R. HALL3. Southeast Asia, JOHN K. WHITMORE4. Oceania, GLENN R. SUMMERHAYES5. Japan, ROSS BENDER6. Korea, RICHARD D. McBRIDE II7. China, TINEKE D’HAESELEER8. Tibet, LEWIS DONEY9. Inner Asia, MICHAEL R. DROMPP10. West Asia, KHODADAD REZAKHANI11. Byzantium, MICHAEL J. DECKER12. Northeast Africa, GEORGE HATKE13. Sahara and West Africa, SONJA MAGNAVITA14. Western Europe, JENNIFER R. DAVIS15. Mesoamerica, HEATHER McKILLOPPROCESSES16. Trade and Commerce, RICHARD L. SMITH17. Migration, JOHANNES PREISER-KAPELLER18. Climate and Disease, PETER SARRIS19. Intellectual Connectivity, ERIK HERMANSIndex

Erik Hermans (PhD, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU) is an independent scholar, currently based in Washington, DC.

The present volume, therefore, is exceptionally welcome in that it brings together research by scholars with specialities in a verywide range of geo-political contexts and academic traditions. The decision by Erik Hermans, the editor of this volume, to limit itsscope to the relatively brief period of c. 600 AD to c. 900 AD, has also proven quite fortuitous in that many of the essays provideoverlapping coverage of the same questions and phenomena, but from different geo-political perspectives.[...]Overall, this is an exceptionally valuable volume, which will be of use to scholars across a wide sweep of fields. Many of the individual essays also will provide an easily accessible entrée to the political histories of non-western societies to graduate and even undergraduate students.

• Introduction, ERIK HERMANSREGIONS1. East Africa, MARK HORTON2. South Asia, KENNETH R. HALL3. Southeast Asia, JOHN K. WHITMORE4. Oceania, GLENN R. SUMMERHAYES5. Japan, ROSS BENDER6. Korea, RICHARD D. McBRIDE II7. China, TINEKE D’HAESELEER8. Tibet, LEWIS DONEY9. Inner Asia, MICHAEL R. DROMPP10. West Asia, KHODADAD REZAKHANI11. Byzantium, MICHAEL J. DECKER12. Northeast Africa, GEORGE HATKE13. Sahara and West Africa, SONJA MAGNAVITA14. Western Europe, JENNIFER R. DAVIS15. Mesoamerica, HEATHER McKILLOPPROCESSES16. Trade and Commerce, RICHARD L. SMITH17. Migration, JOHANNES PREISER-KAPELLER18. Climate and Disease, PETER SARRIS19. Intellectual Connectivity, ERIK HERMANSIndex