Before European Hegemony(English, Paperback, Abu-Lughod Janet L.)

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Before European Hegemony(English, Paperback, Abu-Lughod Janet L.) is written by Abu-Lughod Janet L. and published by Oxford University Press Inc. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0195067746 (ISBN 10) and 9780195067743 (ISBN 13).

In this important study, Janet Abu-Lughod presents a groundbreaking reinterpretation of global economic evolution and 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 fourteenth 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. She concludes with a provocative analysis of our current world economy, suggesting that we may be moving towards a pluralistic world similar in important respects to that of the thirteenth century.