A World-Systems Reader

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

Contributions by 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

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Publication date:

01 March 2000

Length of book:

352 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781461636458

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.

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

The book offers perspective on the different views of its contributors and makes the debates among them more visible. This makes the book useful to graduate students entering these contested fields and useful to scholars already campaigning across them.