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050 4 _aDL352 .C378 2015
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100 1 _aCarter, Tara.
245 1 0 _aIceland's Networked Society :
_bRevealing How the Global Affairs of the Viking Age Created New Forms of Social Complexity.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aBoston :
_bBRILL,
_c2015.
264 4 _c©2015.
300 _a1 online resource (384 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aThe Northern World Series ;
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505 0 _aIntro -- Iceland's Networked Society: Revealing How the Global Affairs of the Viking Age Created New Forms of Social Complexity -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Examining the Process of Secondary State Development in Iceland -- 1.1 Defining a Secondary State -- 1.2 Only by Looking Far Will Things Become Clear: Situating the Icelandic Case within a Broader Viking Age Perspective -- 1.3 The Norse in Iceland -- 2: Environmental Constraints and the Development of an Autonomous Secondary State -- 2.1 Insular Communities and Island Environments: Autonomous Secondary State Formation -- 2.2 The Physical Landscape -- 2.3 Land Degradation and the Norse Colonization of Iceland -- 2.4 Land Productivity in Skagafjörður -- 2.5 Discussion -- 2.6 Conclusions on Iceland as an Autonomous Secondary State -- 3: The Norwegian World System: Hegemonic Colonial Secondary State Formation -- 3.1 Out on the Frontier: Models of Secondary State Formation in Colonial Settings -- 3.2 The Icelandic Sagas: Sources of Evidence, Sources of Contention -- 3.3 Is the Spade Mightier Than the Pen? -- 3.4 The Ability of Text to Reflect Reality -- 3.5 The Power of the Oral Tradition -- 3.6 The Social Reality of Medieval Iceland Represented in Text and Archaeological Remains -- 3.7 Conclusions on Iceland as a Hegemonic Colonial Secondary State -- 4: Examining the Economic Dimensions of Early Icelandic Society: A Proposed Methodology for Multiregional Settlement Pattern Analysis -- 4.1 Settlement Pattern Research in Iceland and Regional Network Analysis -- 4.2 Environmental Setting of Skagafjörður -- 4.3 Research Methodology -- 4.4 Intensive Survey of Hjaltadalur and Viðvíkursveit -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 5: The Archaeological Survey of Hjaltadalur and Viðvíkursveit.
505 8 _a5.1 Environmental Setting of the Research Area: Hjaltadalur and Viðvíkursveit -- 5.2 Research Design of the Hjaltadalur and Viðvíkursveit Survey -- 5.3 The Ás Territory -- 5.4 The Hof Territory -- 5.5 The Viðvík Territory -- 5.7 General Settlement Trends for Hjaltadalur and Viðvíkursveit -- 6: From Independent Traders to Dependent Tenants: Reflections of an Economic Landscape in Skagafjörður -- 6.1 Models for Understanding the Medieval Economy in Iceland -- 6.2 Results of the Skagafjörður Landscape Project -- 6.3 Organizing the Landscape: Evaluation of the Three Proposed Economic Models -- 6.4 Phase I: A Viking Age Economy, 870-1000/50 A.D. -- 6.5 Phase II: A Medieval Economy, 1050-1300 A.D. -- 6.6 Phases III and IV: A Secondary State Operating under an Ecclesiastical Economy -- 6.7 Conclusion -- 7: The Formation of a Synergistic Secondary State in the Norse Economic Territory -- 7.1 Synergistic Secondary State Formation -- 7.2 Archaeological Correlates and Application of the Synergistic Secondary State Model -- 7.3 The Social Structure of Scandinavia -- 7.4 Social Structure and Ecology of Pre-State Iceland -- 7.5 Social Structure and Ecology of Sturlunga Age Iceland and the Emergence of a State Society -- 7.6 Rethinking State Formation in Iceland -- Bibliography -- Index.
520 _aIn Iceland's Networked Society, Tara Carter examines how Viking Age Iceland, despite being positioned at the margins of competing empires, achieved social complexity on its own terms by successfully managing ties to key players in a global social network.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aSocial networks-Iceland-History-To 1500.
650 0 _aComplexity (Philosophy)-Social aspects-Iceland-History-To 1500.
650 0 _aVikings-Iceland-History.
650 0 _aGlobalization-Social aspects-Iceland-History-To 1500.
650 0 _aCosmopolitanism-Iceland-History-To 1500.
650 0 _aIceland-History-To 1262.
650 0 _aIceland-Economic conditions.
650 0 _aNorway-Relations-Iceland.
650 0 _aIceland-Relations-Norway.
650 0 _aIceland-Antiquities.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aCarter, Tara
_tIceland's Networked Society
_dBoston : BRILL,c2015
_z9789004289130
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 4 _aThe Northern World Series
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=2063826
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