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Rise and demise: comparing world-systems

Christopher K Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Ilustrations (page vii)
  • Preface (page ix)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • Part One: Concepts and Definitions
    • 1 A Hundred Flowers Bloom: Approaches to World-Systems (page 11)
    • 2 Defining World-Systems (page 27)
    • 3 Two, Three, Many World-Systems (page 41)
  • Part Two: Explaining World-System Evolution
    • 4 New Territories: The Problem of Incorporation (page 59)
    • 5 The Semiperiphery: Seedbed of Change (page 78)
    • 6 Iterations and Transformations: A Theory of World-Systems Evolution (page 99)
  • Part Three: Investigations: Cases and Comparisons
    • 7 A Very Small World-System (page 121)
    • 8 The Unification of Afroeurasia: Circa 500 B.C.E.-1400 C.E. (page 149)
    • 9 The Europe-Centered System (page 187)
    • 10 Cross-System Comparisons: Similarities and Differences (page 200)
  • Part Four: Conclusions
    • 11 The Transformation of World-Systems (page 233)
    • 12 Conclusions, Questions, Speculations (page 247)
  • Notes (page 255)
  • Glossary (page 271)
  • References (page 276)
  • About the Book and Authors (page 307)
  • Index (page 309)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
SF 77.1 (Sep. 1998): 359-361 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3006021
JIH 28.4 (Spring 1998): 649-650 http://www.jstor.org/stable/206243
SCJ 28.4 (Winter 1997): 1486-1487 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2543674
IA 73.4 (Oct. 1997): 779-780 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2624478
AJS 104.1 (Jul. 1998): 238-240 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/210012
CS 27.3 (May 1998): 288-291 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2655205
JWH 11.2 (2000): 347-350 http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/journal_of_world_history/v011/11.2reilly.html
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Published: c1997
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780813310060 (paper)
  • 9780813310053 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Comparative/World
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