"First published in 1989 ... First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1991"--T.p. verso.

In this important study, Abu-Lughod presents a groundbreaking reinterpretation of global economic evolution, arguing that the modern world economy had its roots

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

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