Alexander R. Thomas, Gregory M. Fulkerson

City and Country

The Historical Evolution of Urban-Rural Systems

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

City and Country traces the evolution of urban-rural systems 7,000 years ago into the modern global order and argues that at the heart of the logic of capitalism is an even deeper logic: urbanization is based on urban dependency.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Urban-Rural Dynamics
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 490
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 941g
• ISBN-13: 9781793644329
• ISBN-10: 1793644322
• Artikelnr.: 61432804

Autorenporträt

Alexander R. Thomas is professor of sociology at SUNY Oneonta. Gregory M. Fulkerson is professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at SUNY Oneonta.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The Environmental Demography of Urban-Rural Systems
Chapter 1: Environmental Demography and Urban-Rural Systems
Chapter 2: Classical Urban-Rural Theory
Chapter 3: Contemporary Urban-Rural Theory
Part II: From the Near East to the Northeast
Chapter 4: In the Beginning
Chapter 5: Emerging Urban-Rural Systems
Chapter 6: History Begins
Chapter 7: Collapse or Continuity?
Chapter 8: Dynamics Culminating
Chapter 9: World System
Part III: New York's Urban-Rural System
Chapter 10: Fur
Chapter 11: Growing the City
Chapter 12: Change amid Growth
Chapter 13: New York and the World-System
Chapter 14: Urban-Rural Dynamics Revisited