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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
90 MB (94301209 bytes)
Edition
Reprint
Pages
464\472
Library
Internet Archive
Orientation
yes
Paginated
no
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2024-09-07 01:29:48

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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