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Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350

By Janet L. Abu-Lughod

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
1991
ISBN
0195067746, 9780195067743
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
28 MB (29096770 bytes)
Edition
Reprint
Pages
464\462
Time added
2025-03-22 18:05:21

Description

In this important study, Abu Lughod presents a groundbreaking reinterpretation of global economic evolution, arguing that the modern world economy had its roots not in the sixteenth century, as is widely supposed, but in the thirteenth century economy a system far different from the European world system which emerged from it. Using the city as the working unit of analysis, Before European Hegemony provides a new paradigm for understanding the evolution of world systems by tracing the rise of a system that, at its peak in the opening decades of the 14th century, involved a vast region stretching between northwest Europe and China. Writing in a clear and lively style, Abu Lughod explores the reasons for the eventual decay of this system and the rise of European hegemony.

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