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

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

Abu-Lughod, Janet L.

Paperback

EconomicsGeneral European HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0195067746
ISBN13: 9780195067743
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Feb 21 1991
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.42 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
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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