Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350, Parts 1250-1350In 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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Contents
Studying a System in Formation | 3 |
The European Subsystem | 33 |
Emergence from Old Empires | 43 |
The European Subsystem | 48 |
The Cities of the Champagne Fairs | 51 |
Commercial and Industrial Cities | 78 |
The Economic Expansion of Belgium | 97 |
The Merchant Mariners of Genoa and Venice | 102 |
The Congruence between Trade Routes and | 172 |
Baghdad and the Persian Gulf | 185 |
The Fertile Crescent the Crusader Kingdoms | 199 |
Cairos Monopoly under the Slave Sultanate | 212 |
Divided into Three Parts | 251 |
On the | 261 |
The Strait and Narrow | 291 |
The Strait of Malacca | 295 |
Mediterranean Routes of Genoa and Venice in | 123 |
The Three Routes to the East | 137 |
The Gradual Reticulation of Routes from | 138 |
The Mongols and the Northeast Passage | 153 |
All the Silks of China | 316 |
System of Silk Production | 329 |
The Growth of Selected Cities between the Ninth | 357 |
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| Title | Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350, Parts 1250-1350 |
| Author | Janet L. Abu-Lughod |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1991 |
| ISBN | 0195067746, 9780195067743 |
| Length | 443 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Economic History History / Europe / General History / General History / Social History |
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