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From the Stone Age to the Internet Age, this book tells the story of human sociocultural evolution. It describes the conditions under which hunter-gatherers, horticulturalists, agricultural states, and industrial capitalist societies formed, flourished, and declined. Drawing evidence from archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, historical documents, statistics, and survey research, the authors trace the growth of human societies and their complexity, and they probe the conflicts in hierarchies both within and among societies. They also explain the macro-micro links that connect cultural evolution and history with the development of the individual self, thinking processes, and perceptions. Key features of the text Designed for undergraduate and graduate social science classes on social change and globalization topics in sociology, world history, cultural geography, anthropology, and international studies. Describes the evolution of the modern capitalist world-system since the fourteenth century BCE, with coverage of the rise and fall of system leaders: the Dutch in the seventeenth century, the British in the nineteenth century, and the United States in the twentieth century. Provides a framework for analyzing patterns of social change. Includes numerous tables, figures, and illustrations throughout the text. Supplemented by framing part introductions, suggested readings at the end of each chapter, an end of text glossary, and a comprehensive bibliography. Offers a web-based auxiliary chapter on Indigenous North American World-Systems and a companion website with excel data sets and additional web links for students.
Contents
I: The Framework; 1: History and Social Evolution; 2: The Comparative World-Systems Approach; 3: Biological Bases of Social Evolution; 4: Building a Social Self: The Macro-Micro Link; II: Stateless Systems; 5: World-Systems of Foragers; 6: The Gardeners; 7: The Sacred Chiefs; III: State-Based Systems; 8: The Temple and the Palace; 9: Public Spaces, Self, and Cognitive Evolution in Early States; 10: The Early Empires: Semiperipheral Conquerors and Capitalist City-States; 11: The Central System; IV: The Long Rise of Capitalism; 12: The Long Rise of the West; 13: The Modern World-System; 14: The Early Modern Systems in the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries; 15: The Global Nineteenth Century; 16: Public Spaces, Individualism, and Cognition in the Modern Age; 17: The Twentieth-Century Age of Extremes; 18: The World-System since 1945: Another Wave of Globalization, Hegemony, and Revolutions; 19: Late Globalization: The Early Twenty-First Century; 20: The Next Three Futures: Another Round of US Hegemony, Global Collapse, or Global Democracy?
