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Before European Hegemony (Hardcover)
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Before European Hegemony (Hardcover)
Series: The Macat Library
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The modern vision of the world as one dominated by one or more
superpowers begs the question of how best to understand the
world-system that existed before the rise of the first modern
powers. Janet Abu-Lughod's solution to this problem, in this highly
influential work, is that Before European Hegemony, a predominantly
insular, agrarian world was dominated by groups of mercantile
city-states that traded with one another on equal terms across a
series of interlocking areas of influence. In this reading of
history, China and Japan, the kingdoms of India, Muslim caliphates,
the Byzantine Empire and European maritime republics alike enjoyed
no absolute dominance over their neighbours and commercial partners
- and the egalitarian international trading network that they built
endured until European advances in weaponry and ship types
introduced radical instability to the system. Abu-Lughod's portrait
of a more balanced world is a masterpiece of synthesis driven by
one highly creative idea: her world system of interlocking spheres
of influence quite literally connected masses of evidence together
in new ways. A triumph of fine critical thinking.
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