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9780860783237

Technology, Industry and Trade: The Levant versus Europe, 1250û1500

by Ashtor,Eliyahu
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    9780860783237

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    0860783235

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    9781040250846

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    9781040250846

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1992-04-28
  • Publisher: Variorum

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Summary

This is the fifth collection of articles by Eliyahu Ashtor to be published by Variorum and focuses on the fundamental question of why, during the later Middle Ages, technology and industry declined, even collapsed, in the Muslim Levant, while simultaneously making enormous progress in the Christian West. An indefatigable researcher in archives all over the Mediterranean, Ashtor amassed quantities of data on this subject, and began to propose causal links between, on the one hand, demographic trends, types of political regime, economic policies and attitudes towards innovation, and on the other, the progress or decline of technology and industry. Although his work was cut short by his death in 1984, the information that Ashtor has made available, for instance on the sugar and the alkali industries, and the questions and hypotheses he has suggested will provide a vital basis for continuing research. The final article, dealing more specifically with the history of commerce, represents in effect a summation of the author's views on the role of the Jews in the trade of the Mediterranean.La cinquième collection d'articles d'Eliyahu Ashtor à être publiée par Variorum (pour les deux volumes encore disponibles, voir p.00) se concentre sur la raison fondamentale pour laquelle, durant le Bas Moyen Age, la technologie et l'industrie dans le Levant musulman étaient en déclin, voire même en plein effondrement, alors qu'elles faisaient simultanément d'énormes progrès dans l'Ouest chrétien. Cherchiste infatiguable des archives méditerranéennes, Ashtor a amassé quantité d'informations à ce sujet et a commencé à suggérer l'existence de lien de cause entre: d'une part, les tendances démongraphiques, les types de régimes politiques, la politique économique et les attitudes vis-à-vis du changement et, d'autre part, le progrès ou le déclin de la technologie et de l'industrie. Bien que son travail ait été interrompu par sa mort en 1984, l'information découverte par Ashtor, ainsi que les questions et hypothèses qu'il a suggéré forment une base essentielle à la continuation de la recherche. Le dernier article, qui traite plus spécifiquement de l'histoire du commerce, fait effet de récapitulatif quant aux opinions de l'auteur sur le rôle des juifs dans le commerce méditerranéen.

Table of Contents

Preface
Le Proche-Orient au Bas Moyen Age: une région sous-développée
The economic decline of the Middle East during the Later Middle Ages - an outline
Levantine sugar industry in the Later Middle Ages - an example of technological decline
L'ascendant technologique de l'Occident médiéval
Aspetti della espansione italiana nel Basso Medioevo
L'apogée du commerce vénitien au Levant: un nouvel essai d'explication
Levantine alkali ashes and European industries
The factors of technological and industrial progress in the Later Middle Ages
The Jews in the Mediterranean trade in the later Middle Ages
Index
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