Screen LibraryThe historical evolution of world-systems
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| Group Author: | ; ; |
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2005. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
The evolutionary processes in world politics series |
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| Carrier Form: | xiv, 213 p.: ill. ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1403965900 |
| Index Number: | K02 |
| CLC: | K02 |
| Call Number: | K02/H673 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. The rise and fall of great powers / E. N. Anderson and Christopher Chasde-Dunn -- Eurasian C-Wave crises in the First Millennium B.C. / Willliam R. Thompson -- From Harappa to Mesopotamia and Egypt to Mycenae: Dark Ages, political-economic declines, and environmental/climatic changes 2200 B.C.-700 B.C. / Sing C. Chew -- Power in thd details: administrative technology and the growth of ancient New Eastern cores / Michael Allen -- Power and size: urbanization and empire formation in world-systems since the Bronze Age / Christopher Chase-Dunn, Alexis Alvarez, and Daniel Pasciuti -- Lamb, rice, and hegemonic decline: the Mongol Empire in the Fourteenth Century / E. N. Anderson -- The rise of European hegemony: the political economy of South Asia and Europe compared, A.D. 1200-A.D. 1500 / Eric Mielants -- Contentious peasants, paternalist state, and arrested capitalism in China's long Eighteenth Century / Ho-Fung Hung -- Space, matter, and technology in globalization of the past and future / Stephen G. Bunker and Paul S. Ciccantell. |