Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350
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.
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Contents
Studying a System in Formation
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3 |
Restructuring the ThirteenthCentury
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4 |
The European Subsystem
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33 |
List of Illustrations and Maps
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34 |
Emergence from Old Empires
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43 |
The European Subsystem
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48 |
The Cities of the Champagne Fairs
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51 |
Commercial and Industrial Cities
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78 |
Baghdad and the Persian Gulf
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The Fertile Crescent the Crusader Kingdoms
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The Sea Routes from the Middle East to India
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Cairos Monopoly under the Slave Sultanate
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212 |
Divided into Three Parts
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251 |
The Three Circuits of the Indian Ocean Trade
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On the
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Continental India Showing Regions and Cities
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The Economic Expansion of Belgium
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The Merchant Mariners of Genoa and Venice
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Mediterranean Routes of Genoa and Venice in
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The Three Routes to the East
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The Gradual Reticulation of Routes from
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The Mongols and the Northeast Passage
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The Congruence between Trade Routes and
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The Strait and Narrow
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The Strait of Malacca
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All the Silks of China
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System of Silk Production
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The Growth of Selected Cities between the Ninth
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