ISBN10: 0195067746, ISBN13: 9780195067743, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. 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 ofworld 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 livelystyle, Abu-Lughod explores the reasons for the eventual decay of this system and the rise of European hegemony. This reinterpretation of global economic evolution argues that the European world system of the 16th century had its origins in an earlier world system dominated by Middle Eastern, Indian, and Chinese trade, and that there was no inherent historical necessity for the shift of power in favour of the West. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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