| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 213 pages) : illustrations |
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The evolutionary processes in world politics series |
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Evolutionary processes in world politics series.
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| Contents |
The rise and fall of great powers / E.N. Anderson and Christopher Chasde-Dunn -- Eurasian C-Wave crises in the First Millennium B.C. / William R. Thompson -- From Harappa to Mesopotamia and Egypt to Mycenae: Dark Ages, political-economic declines, and environmental/climatic changes 2200 B.C.-700 B.C. / Sing C. Chew -- Power in thd details: administrative technology and the growth of ancient New Eastern cores / Michael Allen -- Power and size: urbanization and empire formation in world-systems since the Bronze Age / Christopher Chase-Dunn, Alexis Alvarez, and Daniel Pasciuti -- Lamb, rice, and hegemonic decline: the Mongol Empire in the Fourteenth Century / E.N. Anderson -- The rise of European hegemony: the political economy of South Asia and Europe compared, A.D. 1200-A.D. 1500 / Eric Mielants -- Contentious peasants, paternalist state, and arrested capitalism in China's long Eighteenth Century / Ho-Fung Hung -- Space, matter, and technology in globalization of the past and future / Stephen G. Bunker and Paul S. Ciccantell |
| Summary |
The rise and decline of great powers remains a fascinating topic of vigorous debate. This book brings together leading scholars to explore the historical evolution of world systems through examining the ebb and flow of great powers over time, with particular emphasis on early time periods |
| Analysis |
Hegemonic declines |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Social evolution.
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Social history.
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Social change -- History
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Cultural Evolution
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Social Conditions
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social history.
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Anthropology.
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Political structure & processes.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Society.
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Social change
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Social evolution
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Social history
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Politieke stelsels.
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Economische stelsels.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Chase-Dunn, Christopher K.
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Anderson, E. N. (Eugene Newton), Jr., 1941-
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| ISBN |
9781403980526 |
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1403980527 |
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9781403965905 |
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1403965900 |
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1281368687 |
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9781281368683 |
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9786611368685 |
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661136868X |
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