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World system history : the social science of long-term change

Author: Robert Allen Denemark; et al
Publisher: London New York : Routledge, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This text provides a starting point for the study of continuity and change in the global, social, economic and political system. It considers the nature of social continuity, dealing with at least 5000 years of the human past in a global perspective.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Allen Denemark; et al
ISBN: 0415232767 9780415232760 0415232775 9780415232777
OCLC Number: 43095792
Description: xxii, 345 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction to world system history : toward a social science of long-term change / Robert A. Denemark ... [et. al.] --
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.
Responsibility: edited by Robert A. Denemark ... [et al.].
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This text provides a starting point for the study of continuity and change in the global, social, economic and political system. It considers the nature of social continuity, dealing with at least 5000 years of the human past in a global perspective.

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