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A World-Systems Reader

New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology

von: Tim Bartley, Albert Bergesen, Terry Boswell, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Wilma A. Dunaway, Stephen W. K. Chiu, Colin Flint, Peter Grimes, Thomas D. Hall, Leslie S. Laczko, Joya Misra, Peter N. Peregrine, Fred M. Shelley, David A. Smith, Alvin Y. So, Yodit Solomon, Elon Stander, Debra Straussfogel, William R. Thompson, Carol Ward
48,99 €
Verlag:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	01.03.2000
ISBN/EAN:	9781461636458
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	352

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Titelbeschreibung

This book brings together some of the most influential new research from the world-systems perspective. The authors survey and analyze new and emerging topics from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, from political science to archaeology. Each analytical essay is written in accessible language so that the volume serves as a lucid introduction both to the tradition of world-systems thought and the new debates that are sparking further research today.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

This book brings together some of the most influential research from the world-systems perspective. The authors survey and analyze new and emerging topics from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, from political science to archaeology. Each analytical essay is written in accessible language so that the volume serves as a lucid introduction both to the tradition of world-systems thought and the new debates that are sparking further research today.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction: World-Systems Analysis: A Small Sample from a Large Universe
 Chapter 2 Recent Research in World-Systems Analysis
 Part 3 From Many Disciplines
 Chapter 4 Archaeology and World-Systems Theory
 Chapter 5 Geography & World-Systems Analysis
 Chapter 6 K-Waves, Leadership Cycles, and Global War: A Non-Hyphenated Approach to World Systems Analysis
 Chapter 7 Gender and the World-System: Engaging the Feminist Literature on Development
 Part 8 World-System Overviews
 Chapter 9 Canada's Linguistic and Ethnic Dynamics in an EvolvingWorld-System
 Chapter 10 Urbanization in the World-System: A Retrospective and Prospective Look
 Chapter 11 World-Systems Theory in the Context of Systems Theory: An Overview
 Chapter 12 Postmodernism Explained
 Part 13 Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology
 Chapter 14 Women at Risk: Capitalist Incorporation and Community Transformation on the Cherokee Frontier
 Chapter 15 Resistance Through Healing among American Indian Women
 Chapter 16 World-Systems, Frontiers, and Ethnogenesis: Rethinking the Theories
 Chapter 17 Modern East Asia in World-Systems Analysis
 Part 18 Future Visions
 Chapter 19 Spiral of Socialism and Capitalism
 Chapter 20 World System and Ecosystem