Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 by Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Abu-Lughod
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Textbook (Paperback - Reprint)
- 464pp
- Sales Rank: 72,971
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- ISBN-13: 9780195067743
- Edition Description: Reprint
- Edition Number: 1
- Pub. Date: February 1991
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: February 1991
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Format: Textbook Paperback, 464pp
- Sales Rank: 72,971
- ISBN-13: 9780195067743
- ISBN: 0195067746
- Edition Number: 1
- Edition Description: Reprint
Synopsis
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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