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World system history : the social science of long-term change
- Title
- World system history : the social science of long-term change / edited by Robert A. Denemark [and others].
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Denemark, Robert Allen.
- Description
- xxii, 345 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Social history
- World history
- Social change
- Social Conditions
- social history
- 15.50 general world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general
- Weltsystem
- Sozialer Wandel
- Weltgeschichte
- Wereldgeschiedenis
- Sociale verandering
- Internationale economie
- Lange termijn
- História social
- História mundial
- Mudança social (aspectos politico-sócio-econômicos)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-335) and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0415232767
- 9780415232760
- 0415232775
- 9780415232777
- LCCN
- 99087145
- OCLC
- ocm43095792
- 43095792
- SCSB-8967312
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library