| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 345 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction to world system history : toward a social science of long-term change / Robert A. Denemark [and others] -- Five thousand year world system in theory and praxis / Andre Gunder Frank and Barry K. Gills -- World system evolution / George Modelski -- Civilizations, world systems and hegemonies / David Wilkinson -- Comparing world-systems to explain social evolution / Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall -- Envisioning global change : a long-term perspective / Andrew Sherratt -- Concretizing the continuity argument in global systems analysis / Jonathan Friedman -- On the evolution of global systems, part I : the Mesopotamian heartland / Kajsa Ekholm-Friedman -- State and economy in ancient Egypt / David Warburton -- World systems and social change in agrarian societies, 3000 BC to AD 1500 / Stephen K. Sanderson -- Information and transportation nets in world history / William H. McNeill -- Neglecting nature : world accumulation and core-periphery relations, 2500 BC to AD 1990 / Sing C. Chew -- Accumulation based on symbolic versus intrinsic 'productivity' : conceptualizing unequal exchange from Spondylus shells to fossil fuels / Alf Hornborg -- War and warfare : scales of conflict in long-range analysis / Claudio Cioffi-Reviilla -- Evoliution of the world-city system, 3000 BCE to AD 2000 / Andrew Bosworth -- Comparing approaches to the social science history of the world system / William R. Thompson -- Cumulation and direction in world system history / Robert A. Denemark |
| Summary |
A vital overview of perspective on the history of the world system for all graduates and researchers in a variety of fields such as international political economy, world history and sociology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-335) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Social history.
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World history.
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Social change.
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Social Conditions
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social history.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Social change
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Social history
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World history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Denemark, Robert Allen
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| ISBN |
0203246160 |
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9780203246160 |
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0203467701 |
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9780203467701 |
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9780415232760 |
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0415232767 |
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9780415232777 |
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0415232775 |
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9786610403912 |
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6610403910 |
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1134571453 |
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9781134571451 |
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1280403918 |
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9781280403910 |
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1134571445 |
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9781134571444 |
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