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

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

• 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