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

Author: Janet L. Abu-Lughod Year: 1989 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Economics, Non Fiction, Politics, Anthology Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780195067743 0195067746

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. Similar books: The Birth of the Modern World by Christopher Bayly The Rise of the West by William H. McNeill Chronicles of the Age of Chivalry by Elizabeth Hallam The Human Web by J. R. McNeill A Short History of the World by J. M. Roberts World History For Dummies by Peter Haugen Millennium by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto The Transformation of the World by Jurgen Osterhammel A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel After Tamerlane by John Darwin The Outline of History by H. G. Wells The Origins of the Modern World by Robert B. Marks Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley A Study of History by Arnold J. Toynbee Heroes of History by Will Durant The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis