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Sexual Hegemony w/ Max Fox and Chris Nealon

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The History of Northern Italy and the Development of Capitalist Social Relations

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In Northern Italy, let's say in the 12th or 13th century, there's a sort of Eurasia-wide increase in economic activity. Florence Origi says Florence deindustrializes really early on. The wool guild also mostly turns into bankers at a certain point. It seems like you could attribute that to the establishment of the Mongol Empire as a sort of like political intermediary that wasn't there before.

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