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Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350

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Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 - Abu-Lughod, Janet L
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In this award-winning study, Abu-Lughod argues 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, the author provides a new paradigm for understanding the evolution of world economies 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 ...

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Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 1991, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195067743

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Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 1989, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195058864

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