Iceland's networked society : : revealing how the global affairs of the Viking age created new forms of social complexity / / Tara Carter.

Linked by the politics of global trade networks, Viking Age Europe was a well-connected world. Within this fertile social environment, Iceland ironically has been casted as a marginal society too remote to participate in global affairs, and destined to live in the shadow of its more successful neigh...

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Superior document:Northern World : North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 A.D. peoples, economics and cultures, Volume 69
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2015.
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Northern world ; 69.
Physical Description:1 online resource (384 pages) :; illustrations, maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Examining the process of secondary state development in Iceland
  • Environmental constraints and the development of an autonomous secondary state
  • The Norwegian world system : hegemonic colonial secondary state formation
  • Examining the economic dimensions of early Icelandic society : a proposed methodology for multiregional settlement pattern analysis
  • The archaeological survey of Hjaltadalur and Viovikursveit
  • From independent traders to dependent tenants : reflections of an economic landscape in Skagafjorour
  • The formation of a synergistic secondary state in the Norse economic territory.