Barry K. Gills (ed.)

The World System

Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand?
Herausgeber: Gills, Barry; Gunder Frank, Andre

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Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection of provocative essays reproduces the debate on the role of capital accumulation in world development and the criteria for defining a world eco-system. Contributors include: Samir Amin and I. Wallerstein.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780415150897
• ISBN-10: 0415150892
• Artikelnr.: 22262257

Autorenporträt

Andre Gunder Frank, Barry Gills

Inhaltsangabe

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