Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 by Janet L. Abu-Lughod

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

Janet L. Abu-Lughod

464 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction economics history sociology challenging informative slow-paced
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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 eco...

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