Rise and Demise : Comparing World Systems

Chase-Dunn, Christopher/ Hall, Thomas D

Routledge（2019/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 336 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780367320157
• DDC分類 320

Full Description

Spanning ten thousand years of social change, this book examines the ways in which world-systems evolve. A comparative study of stateless societies, state-based regional empires, and the modern global capitalist political economy, it reveals the underlying processes at work in the reproduction and transformation of social, economic, and political s

Contents

Preface -- Introduction -- Concepts and Definitions -- A Hundred Flowers Bloom: Approaches to World-Systems -- Defining World-Systems -- Two, Three, Many World-Systems -- Explaining World-System Evolution -- New Territories: The Problem of Incorporation -- The Semiperiphery: Seedbed of Change -- Iterations and Transformations: A Theory of World-Systems Evolution -- Investigations: Cases and Comparisons -- A Very Small World-System -- The Unification of Afroeurasia: Circa 500 B.C.E.-1400 C.E. -- The Europe-Centered System -- Cross-System Comparisons: Similarities and Differences -- Conclusions -- The Transformation of World-Systems -- Conclusions, Questions, Speculations