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Author : Janet L. Abu-Lughod
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195067743
"First published in 1989 ... First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1991"--T.p. verso.
Author : Janet L. Abu-Lughod
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198022541
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.
Author : Janet L. Abu-Lughod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Cities and towns, Medieval
ISBN : 019774303X
Author : William R Day
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351350174
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.
Author : David Crouch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198782940
The Chivalric Turn examines the medieval obsession with defining and practising superior conduct, and the social consequences that followed from it. Historians since the seventeenth century have tended to understand medieval conduct through the eyes of the writers of the Enlightenment, viewing superior conduct as 'knightly' behaviour, and categorising it as chivalry. Using, for the first time, the full range of the considerable twelfth- and thirteenth-century literature on conduct in the European vernaculars and in Latin, The Chivalric Turn describes and defines what superior lay conduct was in European society before chivalry, and maps how and why chivalry emerged and redefined superior conduct in the last generation of the twelfth century. The emergence of chivalry was only one part of a major social change, because it changed how people understood the concept of nobility, which had consequences for the medieval understanding of gender, social class, violence, and the limits of law.
Author : Perry Anderson
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786633699
A fascinating history of the political theory of hegemony Few terms are so widely used in the literature of international relations and political science, with so little agreement about their exact meaning, as hegemony. In the first full historical study of its fortunes as a concept, Perry Anderson traces its emergence in Ancient Greece and its rediscovery during the upheavals of 1848–1849 in Germany. He then follows its checkered career in revolutionary Russia, fascist Italy, Cold War America, Gaullist France, Thatcher’s Britain, post-colonial India, feudal Japan, Maoist China, eventually arriving at the world of Merkel and May, Bush and Obama. The result is a surprising and fascinating expedition into global intellectual history, ending with reflections on the contemporary political landscape.
Author : William R. Day (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Hegemony
ISBN : 1912281295
"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."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Sigfrid Henry Steinberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Europe
ISBN : UOM:39015026949571
Author : William R. Day (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Cities and towns, Medieval
ISBN : 1912302411
"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."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Alan W. Cafruny,Magnus Ryner
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015074277677
Discusses the prospects of the European Union and its role in the international arena. This book explores the limits of the EU's economic and political power in relation to the United States, and of its neoliberal social and economic policies at home. It also considers the long-term prospects for the transatlantic relationship.
Author : Jonas Scherner,Eugene N. White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107049703
Paying for Hitler's War is a comparative economic study of twelve Nazi-occupied countries during World War II.
Author : Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0804746931
An Economist Book of the Year, 2001. In the 18th century, a debate ensued over the French naturalist Buffon’s contention that the New World was in fact geologically new. Historians, naturalists, and philosophers clashed over Buffon’s view. This book maintains that the “dispute” was also a debate over historical authority: upon whose sources and facts should naturalists and historians reconstruct the history of the New World and its people. In addressing this question, the author offers a strikingly novel interpretation of the Enlightenment.
Author : Jason Frydman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813935744
The idea of "world literature" has served as a crucial though underappreciated interlocutor for African diasporic writers, informing their involvement in processes of circulation, translation, and revision that have been identified as the hallmarks of the contemporary era of world literature. Yet in spite of their participation in world systems before and after European hegemony, Africa and the African diaspora have been excluded from the networks and archives of world literature. In Sounding the Break, Jason Frydman attempts to redress this exclusion by drawing on historiography, ethnography, and archival sources to show how writers such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Alejo Carpentier, Derek Walcott, Maryse Condé, and Toni Morrison have complicated both Eurocentric and Afrocentric categories of literary and cultural production. Through their engagement with and revision of the European world literature discourse, he contends, these writers conjure a deep history of "literary traffic" whose expressions are always already cosmopolitan, embedded in the long histories of cultural and economic exchange between Africa, Asia, and Europe. It is precisely the New World American location of these writers, Frydman concludes, that makes possible this revisionary perspective on the idea of (Old) World literature.
Author : William R. Day (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Cities and towns, Medieval
ISBN : 1912281295
"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."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Daniel H. Nexon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400830800
Scholars have long argued over whether the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended more than a century of religious conflict arising from the Protestant Reformations, inaugurated the modern sovereign-state system. But they largely ignore a more fundamental question: why did the emergence of new forms of religious heterodoxy during the Reformations spark such violent upheaval and nearly topple the old political order? In this book, Daniel Nexon demonstrates that the answer lies in understanding how the mobilization of transnational religious movements intersects with--and can destabilize--imperial forms of rule. Taking a fresh look at the pivotal events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--including the Schmalkaldic War, the Dutch Revolt, and the Thirty Years' War--Nexon argues that early modern "composite" political communities had more in common with empires than with modern states, and introduces a theory of imperial dynamics that explains how religious movements altered Europe's balance of power. He shows how the Reformations gave rise to crosscutting religious networks that undermined the ability of early modern European rulers to divide and contain local resistance to their authority. In doing so, the Reformations produced a series of crises in the European order and crippled the Habsburg bid for hegemony. Nexon's account of these processes provides a theoretical and analytic framework that not only challenges the way international relations scholars think about state formation and international change, but enables us to better understand global politics today.