This is my obligatory tweet about how much I love Before European Hegemony. Specifically this part.pic.twitter.com/Q21VnnM2zh
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Clearly something I need to read. To what degree does it engage with the 'military revolution'/gunpowder scholarship though? "There's no reason why Europe" is a bit different from 'There's no reason why Europe except gross military superiority brought about by <pick thesis>'
that book so much!
Where <thesis> may be complex technological interactions (Parker), lack of horse nomad exposure (Chase), political fragmentation combined with existential interstate competition (McNeill) or conflict intensity plus some of the rest (Andrade)
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JAL isn’t so much interested in the “Rise of the West” question as much as she’s trying to undermine/complicate Wallerstein’s world systems theory (which is euro-centric and modernist). She’s arguing that a world systems exist earlier (and is focused on 13thC).
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Which I realize isn’t what she says the thesis of the book is! But I read it more as response to Wallerstein than I do anything else. She’s another voice in the Wallerstein and Gunder-Frank debate.
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Abu-Lugod talks about it, but she’s more interested in trade and other markers of modernity that aren’t necessarily the military. It’s really an excellent book.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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