World-Systems Reader

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

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2000-03-01
Mått:142 x 218 x 20 mm
Vikt:426 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780847691845

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Mer om författaren

Thomas D. Hall is currently the Lester M. Jones Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at DePauw University.

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The strength of this book remains the variety of themes that it explains through a world systems theory approach.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 Introduction: World-Systems Analysis: A Small Sample from a Large UniverseChapter 2 Recent Research in World-Systems AnalysisPart 3 From Many DisciplinesChapter 4 Archaeology and World-Systems TheoryChapter 5 Geography & World-Systems AnalysisChapter 6 K-Waves, Leadership Cycles, and Global War: A Non-Hyphenated Approach to World Systems AnalysisChapter 7 Gender and the World-System: Engaging the Feminist Literature on DevelopmentPart 8 World-System OverviewsChapter 9 Canada's Linguistic and Ethnic Dynamics in an EvolvingWorld-SystemChapter 10 Urbanization in the World-System: A Retrospective and Prospective LookChapter 11 World-Systems Theory in the Context of Systems Theory: An OverviewChapter 12 Postmodernism ExplainedPart 13 Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and EcologyChapter 14 Women at Risk: Capitalist Incorporation and Community Transformation on the Cherokee FrontierChapter 15 Resistance Through Healing among American Indian WomenChapter 16 World-Systems, Frontiers, and Ethnogenesis: Rethinking the TheoriesChapter 17 Modern East Asia in World-Systems AnalysisPart 18 Future VisionsChapter 19 Spiral of Socialism and CapitalismChapter 20 World System and Ecosystem