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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libcom.org/article/after-fall-communiques-occupied-california
viewpointmag.com/2012/09/12/towards-a-socialist-art-of-government-michel-foucaults-the-mesh-of-power
thenewinquiry.com/blog/in-love-and-memory
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