Before European hegemony : the world system A.D. 1250-1350 / Janet L. Abu-Lughod.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abu-Lughod, Janet L.

Contributor:

Rogers D. Spotswood Collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history--Medieval, 500-1500.

Economic history.

Economic history--Medieval.

International trade--History.

International trade.

History.

Cities and towns, Medieval.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 443 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 374-427) and index.

ISBN:

0195058860

9780195058864

0195067746

9780195067743

OCLC:

18462916