Islamic Roots of Capitalism: Egypt, 1760-1840

Challenging the ethnocentric notion that a capitalist economy could only be transferred to the peripheral states through contact with Europe, this text argues that the capitalist transformation of the Egyptian economy was begun by Muslim merchants and Mamluk rulers in the 18th century.

This edition has an updated first chapter, resituating its main argument for today's readers.

Author: Peter Gran, Gran Peter
Publisher: Syracuse University Publications in Continuin
Published: 07/01/1998
Pages: 340
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.03h x 6.04w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780815605065

About the Author
Peter Gran, professor of history at Temple University, is the author of Beyond Eurocentrism: A New View of Modern World History, also published by Syracuse University Press.