BEFORE EUROPEAN HEGEMONY by Janet L. Abu Lughod ( 9780195067743 )

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BEFORE EUROPEAN HEGEMONY
THE WORLD SYSTEM AD 1250-1350

By:

Janet L. Abu Lughod

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0195067746

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC

Pub. date:

21 February, 1991

Pages:

460

Description:

In this portrait of world trade before the age of European hegemony, the author examines global commercial connections amongst a large number of cities between the years 1250 and 1350.

Synopsis:

In this important study, Janet Abu-Lughod presents a groundbreaking reinterpretation of global economic evolution and 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 fourteenth 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. She concludes with a provocative analysis of our current world economy, suggesting that we may be moving towards a pluralistic world similar in important respects to that of the thirteenth century.

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Oxford University Press Inc

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