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This insight led her to reconsider the role and character of medieval cities more generally, and to reject the Eurocentrism of Henri Pirenne and Max Weber and any hierarchically dichotomous analysis of Occidental versus Oriental cities. She was at "dis-ease" with Marx's treatment of the origins of capitalism. When she came to read the first two volumes of Immanuel Wallerstein's path-breaking study The Modern World-System (Wallerstein 1974;1979), she came away with "a gnawing sense of Kuhnian anomaly, since they tended to treat the Europeandominated world system that formed in the long sixteenth century as if it had appeared de nova"
Most addressed various parts of the puzzle, whereas Abu-Lughod was explicitly attempting to "piece together in systematic fashion the connections among them" (Abu-Lughod 1989: xi), and construct an over-arching account of the world system "by looking at the connections between geographic entities that are usually treated by separate sets of specialists ... "
Abu-Lughod presented her outline of the world system in the thirteenth century, and Andre Gunder Frank, William H
Summary
Andre Gunder Frank enthusiastically contributed to that dialogue in Journal of World History and elsewhere, and in voluminous personal correspondence with Abu-Lughod. 2 We invited Abu-Lughod to a panel discussing her work, organized by the World Historical Systems Theory Group (within the International Studies Association), a new interdisciplinary circle of scholars analyzing long term and large scale patterns of social change in world history.
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