World system history : the social science of long-term change / edited by Robert A. Denemark ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Denemark, Robert Allen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change.

Social history.

World history.

Physical Description:

xxii, 345 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London New York : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This extraordinary book presents a refreshing and innovative overview of the changes to the global system over the last 5000 years. Featuring renowned contributors - each specialists in their field - this is the only volume to offer so co-ordinated a study of continuity and change in the global social, economic and political system. Key areas covered include: * International Political Economy - Robert A. Denemark * Archaeology - Jonathan Freidman * Economic development - Andre Gunder Frank * History - George Modelski * Sociology - Christopher Chase-Dunn.

Contents:

part Part I General perspectives on world system history

chapter 1 The five thousand year world system in theory and praxis / Andre Gunder Frank

chapter 2 World system evolution / George Modelski

chapter 3 Civilizations, world systems and hegemonies / David Wilkinson

chapter 4 Comparing world-systems to explain social evolution / Christopher Chase-Dunn

part Part II From regional and sectoral to a global perspective

chapter 5 Envisioning global change: a long-term perspective / Andrew Sherratt

chapter 6 Concretizing the continuity argument in global systems analysis / Jonathan Friedman

chapter 7 On the evolution of global systems, part I: the Mesopotamian heartland / Kajsa Ekholm-Friedman

chapter 8 State and economy in ancient Egypt / David Warburton

chapter 9 World systems and social change in agrarian societies, 3000 BC to AD 1500 / Stephen K. Sanderson

part Part III Global macro-historical processes

chapter 10 Information and transportation nets in world history / William H. McNeill

chapter 11 Neglecting Nature: world accumulation and core- periphery relations, 2500 BC to AD 1990 / Sing C. Chew

chapter 12 Accumulation based on symbolic versus intrinsic productivity: conceptualizing unequal exchange from Spondylus shells to fossil fuels / Alf Hornborg

chapter 13 War and warfare: scales of conflict in long-range analysis / Claudio Cioffi-Revilla

chapter 14 The evolution of the world-city system, 3000 BCE to AD 2000 / Andrew Bosworth

part Part IV Comparison, cumulation, cooperation

chapter 15 Comparing approaches to the social science history of the world system / William R. Thompson

chapter 16 Cumulation and direction in world system history / Robert A. Denemark.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-335) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-57144-5

1-134-57145-3

0-203-24616-0

1-280-40391-8

0-203-46770-1

9780203467701

OCLC:

559986374