Before European Hegemony

Janet L. Abu Rugodo before European hegemony: World system 1250 - 1350 BC made a remarkable contribution to scholarships and gained a truly classic position for this groundbreaking work . The influence and importance of the knowledge of this book are decisive and lasting, influence the emergence and integration of Eurocentricism after the world history and fundamentally reinterpret the origin and historical development of the world system To do. Next, there is a series of personal considerations on the background, discussion and analysis framework of the knowledge proposed in this valuable and famous work.

Before the European hegemony, Abu-Lughod concluded that the 13th century international trade and production world system is complex and complex. This includes: "Institutional arrangements for business operations such as shipping and maritime technology, social organizations for production and marketing, and mechanisms for partnerships, the storage of funds, and technology for monetization and exchange Agreement "(Abu-Lughod 1989: 353). It is therefore sufficient to focus on the interpretation of "not a simple and deterministic interpretation" or "even the special technical, cultural, psychological and economic characteristics of European society". Because they tend to ignore the context of existing institutions. "The same thing in the 13th century world system features coexistence and cooperation among several core areas and a series of cultural, social, religious, economic, and political sequences 354 - 5). (Ibid)

Another important contribution to European hegemony research was that Janet paid attention to the structural structure of the world system. Long before the European world system, there was a complex Asian-centered territorial form that provided the opportunity to compare this structure. This is particularly true because the lenses analyzed by the world's systems have not been tested. However, in fact many studies have been conducted through various specialized fields that enable Janet's examination. Perhaps most importantly, these documents have enabled her to establish a major structural difference in the early 1200s between the Asian world system and the world system.