Sexual Hegemony w/ Max Fox and Chris Nealon
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The History of Northern Italy and the Development of Capitalist Social Relations
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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