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  • World-Systems Theory in Practice

    Leadership, Production, and Exchange

    by Rani T. Alexander, Gary M. Feinman, Andre Gunder Frank, Robert J. Jeske, P Nick Kardulias, Darrell LaLone, George Modelski, Peter Peregrine, Mark T. Shutes, Gil Stein, Patricia A. Urban, Peter Wells, Lawrence A. Kuznar, Edward M. Schortman, Thomas D. Hall, Ian Morris, William R. Thompson ...
    In the quarter century since Wallerstein first developed world systems theory (WST), scholars in a variety of disciplines have adopted the approach to explain intersocietal interaction on a grand scale. These essays bring to light archaeological data and analysis to show that many historic and prehistoric states lacked the mechanisms to dominate the distant (and in some cases, nearby) societies ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • World System History

    The Social Science of Long-Term Change

    Edited by Robert. A Denemark, Jonathan Friedman, Barry K. Gills, George Modelski ...
    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 - ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Globalization as Evolutionary Process

    Modeling Global Change

    Edited by George Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas, William R. Thompson ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    The term globalization has gained widespread popularity; yet most treatments are either descriptive and/or focused on changes in economic interconnectivity. In this volume the concept is seen in broader terms as leading international experts from a range of disciplines develop a long-term analysis to address the problems of globalization.The editors and contributors develop a framework for ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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  • The Colonizer's Model of the World

    Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History

    by J. M. Blaut ...
    This influential book challenges one of the most pervasive and powerful beliefs of our time--that Europe rose to modernity and world dominance due to unique qualities of race, environment, culture, mind, or spirit, and that progress for the rest of the world resulted from the diffusion of European civilization. J. M. Blaut persuasively argues that this doctrine is not grounded in the facts of ... Read more

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    by Christiane Harzig, Dirk Hoerder ...
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  • The World System

    Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand?

    Edited by Barry Gills, Andre Gunder Frank ...
    The historic long term economic interconnections of the world are now universally accepted. The idea of the economic 'world system' advanced by Immanuel Wallerstein has set the period of linkage in the early modern period but Andre Gunder Frank and Barry K. Gills think that this date is much too late. They argue an interconnection going back as much as 5000 years. In The World System, leading ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Evolution of Human Co-operation

    Ritual and Social Complexity in Stateless Societies

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  • Explorations in History and Globalization

    Edited by Cátia Antunes, Karwan Fatah-Black ...
    Considering the ways in which the ‘global turn’ is changing the theory and practice of historical disciplines, Explorations in History and Globalization engages with the concept and methodology of globalization, challenging traditional divisions of space and time to offer a range of perspectives on how globalization has affected social, economic, political and cultural history.Each chapter covers ... Read more

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  • Comparing Globalizations

    Historical and World-Systems Approaches

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    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This work explores essential debates on globalization and world-systems analysis. It begins with a review of theoretical insights from world-systems analysis and explains the evolution of its terminology. The book subsequently seeks to answer several important questions: When did globalization begin and what insights into contemporary globalization may be gained from older forms? How does ... Read more

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  • Globalization and Global History

    Edited by Barry K. Gills, William Thompson ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    Globalization and Global History argues that globalization is not an exotic and new phenomenon. Instead it emphasizes that globalization is something that has been with us as long as there have been people who are both interdependent and aware of that fact.Studying globalization from the vantage point of long-term global history permits theoretical and empirical investigation, allowing the authors ... Read more

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