World System History: The Social Science of Long-Term Change

ISBN-13: 9780415232777 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 368 str.

Robert Allen Denemark; George Modelski; Dr Barry K. Gills

Opis

This text provides a fundamental starting point for the study of continuity and change in the global, social, economic and political system over the longest historical term. Bringing together interdisciplinary scholars, the book considers the nature of social continuity back through history, resulting in a book which cuts across boundaries in social science and deals with at least 5000 years of the human past in a global perspective. It offers a co-ordinated picture of the issues of the prospects for the unified study of world system history. The kind of transdisciplinary co-operation needed to make sense of our complex world is made clear through the range of contributors' perspectives, Jonathan Freidman's archaeology to Andre Gunder Frank's economic development, George Modelski's history to Christopher Chase-Dunn's sociology. This book shows that in order to understand contemporary issues we must study the long term history of the world system.

Recenzje

'World System History is not merely innovative and stimulating, but is a positive manifesto towards cultural understanding and tolerance.' - Contemporary Review, Volume 278, April 2001

Spis treści

An Introduction to World System History: Toward a social science of long-term change Part 1: General Perspectives on World System History 1. The Five Thousand Year World System in Theory and Praxis 3. Civilizations, World Systems and Hegemonies 4. Comparing World-Systems to Explain Social Evolution Part 2: From Regional and Sectoral to a Global Perspective 5. Envisioning Global Change: A long-term perspective 6. Concretizing the Continuity Argument in Global Systems Analysis 7. On the Evolution of Global Systems, Part 1: The Mesopotamian Heartland 8. State and Economy in Ancient Egypt 9. World Systems and Social Change in Agrarian Societies, 3000BC to AD 1500 Part 3: Global Macro-Historical Processes 10. Information and Transportation Nets in World History 11. Neglecting Nature: World accumulation and core-periphery relations, 2500BC to AD 1990 12. Accumulation Based on Symbolic Versus Intrinsic 'Productivity': Conceptualizing unequal exchange from Spondylus shells to fossil fuels 13. War and Warfare: Scales of conflict in long-range analysis 14. The Evolution of the World-City System, 3000BCE to AD2000 Part 4: Comparison, Cumulation, Cooperation 15. Comparing Approaches to the Social Science History of the World System 16. Cumulation and Direction in World System History

O autorze

Robert. A Denemark, Jonathan Friedman, Barry K. Gills, George Modelski