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Before European Hegemony : The World System A.d. 1250-1350 - 89 edition

by Janet L. Abu-lughod

Before European Hegemony : The World System A.d. 1250-1350 (ISBN10: 0195067746; ISBN13: 9780195067743)
ISBN13: 978-0195067743
ISBN10: 0195067746

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ISBN13: 978-0195058864
ISBN10: 0195058860

Summary: 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 ...show more 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. ...show less

Edition/Copyright: 89
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 02/21/1991

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