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Technology, Industry and Trade - The Levant versus Europe, 1250-1500 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Technology, Industry and Trade - The Levant versus Europe, 1250-1500 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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This is the fifth collection of articles by Eliyahu Ashtor to be
published by Variorum and focuses on the fundamental question of
why, during the later Middle Ages, technology and industry
declined, even collapsed, in the Muslim Levant, while
simultaneously making enormous progress in the Christian West. An
indefatigable researcher in archives all over the Mediterranean,
Ashtor amassed quantities of data on this subject, and began to
propose causal links between, on the one hand, demographic trends,
types of political regime, economic policies and attitudes towards
innovation, and on the other, the progress or decline of technology
and industry. Although his work was cut short by his death in 1984,
the information that Ashtor has made available, for instance on the
sugar and the alkali industries, and the questions and hypotheses
he has suggested will provide a vital basis for continuing
research. The final article, dealing more specifically with the
history of commerce, represents in effect a summation of the
author's views on the role of the Jews in the trade of the
Mediterranean. La cinquieme collection d'articles d'Eliyahu Ashtor
A Atre publiee par Variorum (pour les deux volumes encore
disponibles, voir p.00) se concentre sur la raison fondamentale
pour laquelle, durant le Bas Moyen Age, la technologie et
l'industrie dans le Levant musulman etaient en declin, voire mAme
en plein effondrement, alors qu'elles faisaient simultanement
d'enormes progres dans l'Ouest chretien. Cherchiste infatiguable
des archives mediterraneennes, Ashtor a amasse quantite
d'informations A ce sujet et a commence A suggerer l'existence de
lien de cause entre: d'une part, les tendances demongraphiques, les
types de regimes politiques, la politique economique et les
attitudes vis-A -vis du changement et, d'autre part, le progres ou
le declin de la technologie et de l'industrie. Bien que son travail
ait ete interrompu par sa mort en 1984,
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