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 Ab
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 wid
An important contribution to the discussion of the Arab lands before European hegemony and a detailed study of a region and power center many scholars identify as the beginning of modern Palestinian h
The process of globalisation in the late nineteenth century had a profound effect on the trajectories of German nationalism. While the existing literature on the subject has largely remained within the confines of national history, Sebastian Conrad uses the example of mobility and labour migration to show to what extent German nationalism was transformed under the auspices of global integration. Among the effects of cross border circulation were the emergence of diasporic nationalism, the racialisation of the nation, the implementation of new border regimes, and the hegemony of ideological templates that connected nationalist discourse to global geopolitics. Ranging from the African colonies, China and Brazil to the Polish speaking territories in Eastern Europe, this groundbreaking book demonstrates that the dynamics of German nationalism were not only negotiated in the Kaiserreich but also need to be situated in the broader context of globalisation before the First World War.
西元十三世紀時，在整個歐亞大陸普遍存在一個先於現代的世界體系（a pre-modern world system），她認為這個世界體系早在伊曼紐‧華勒斯坦所認定的現代世界體系形成之前就存在了。此外，她也主張「西方的崛起」是從西元十六世紀葡萄牙海上武裝艦隊入侵相對平和的印度洋貿易商圈開始，這不是歐洲內部有什麼特色所導致的結果，而是由於前一個世界體系崩壞了才會發生這樣的事。該書對歐洲霸權形成前的世界體
