The World System
Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand?
Published on 28. October 1993
Book
Hardback
344 pages
978-0-415-07678-4 (ISBN)
Description
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 academics examine this issue, in a debate contributed to by William H. McNeill and Immanuel Wallerstein among others.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate and Undergraduate
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
681 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-07678-4 (9780415076784)
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Persons
Andre Gunder Frank, Barry Gills
Content
Part I: Introduction 1. The 5,000-Year World System: An Interdisciplinary Introduction Andre Gunder Frank and Barry K. Gills Part II: Building Blocks of Theory and Analysis 2. Capital Imperialism and Exploitation in Ancient World Systems K. Ekholm and J. Friedman 3. The cumulation of Accumulation Barry K. Gills and Andre Gunder Frank 4. Hegemonic Transitions in the World System Barry K. Gills Part III: Using the Theory to Reanalyze History 5. World System Cycles, Crises, and Hegemonic Shifts, 1700 BC to 1700 AD Barry K. Gills and Andre Gunder Frank 6. Transitiona Ideological Modes: Feudalism, Capitalism, Socialism Andre Gunder Frank Part IV: The World System: 500 Years or 5,000? Discussing the Theoretical, Historical and Political Issues 7. Civilizations, Cores, World Economies, and Oikumenes Daivd Wilkinson 8. The Ancient World-System Versus the Modern Capitalist World-System Samir Amin 9. Discontinuities and Persistence: One World System or a Succession of Systems? Janet Abu-Lughod 10. World System Versus World-Systems: A Critique Immanuel Wallerstein 11. Rejoinder and Conclusions Andre Gunder Frank and Barry K. Gills