Before European hegemony : the world system A.D. 1250-1350 /
Abu-Lughod, Janet L
Before European hegemony : the world system A.D. 1250-1350 / Janet L. Abu-Lughod - New York : Oxford University Press, 1989 - xvi, 443 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 374-427) and index
Studying a system in formation -- The cities of the Champagne fairs -- Bruges and Ghent: commercial and industrial cities of Flanders -- The merchant mariners of Genoa and Venice -- The Mongols and the Northeast Passage -- Sindbad's way: Baghdad and the Persian Gulf -- Cairo's monopoly under the slave sultanate -- The Indian subcontinent: on the way to everywhere -- The strait and narrow -- All the silks of China -- Restructuring the thirteenth-century world system
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. -- From product description
0195058860 9780195058864 0195067746 9780195067743
£28.00
88025580
GB9142742 bnb GB9023275 bnb b9023275
Economic history--Medieval, 500-1500
International trade--History
Cities and towns, Medieval
HC41 / .A28 1989
ARCH FRBC 330.94 L951B
Before European hegemony : the world system A.D. 1250-1350 / Janet L. Abu-Lughod - New York : Oxford University Press, 1989 - xvi, 443 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 374-427) and index
Studying a system in formation -- The cities of the Champagne fairs -- Bruges and Ghent: commercial and industrial cities of Flanders -- The merchant mariners of Genoa and Venice -- The Mongols and the Northeast Passage -- Sindbad's way: Baghdad and the Persian Gulf -- Cairo's monopoly under the slave sultanate -- The Indian subcontinent: on the way to everywhere -- The strait and narrow -- All the silks of China -- Restructuring the thirteenth-century world system
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. -- From product description
0195058860 9780195058864 0195067746 9780195067743
£28.00
88025580
GB9142742 bnb GB9023275 bnb b9023275
Economic history--Medieval, 500-1500
International trade--History
Cities and towns, Medieval
HC41 / .A28 1989
ARCH FRBC 330.94 L951B