About this title: This volume discusses the historic long-term economic interconnections of the world, and how they are now universally accepted. The idea of the "world system" advanced by Immanuel Wallerstein has set the period of linkage in the early modern period. However, some academics think this date is much too late and denies a much longer interconnection going back as much as five thousand years. The text discussus this issue, and the implications - reframing the chronology of the world system exercises powerful influences on the writing of history. It integrates the areas of Asia and the East which ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis(Routledge)
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780415150897ISBN:0415150892
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 9.213 by 6.142 inches. This book is printed on demand. (allow 1-2 weeks for printing) part i: introduction 1. the 5, 000-year world system: an interdisciplinary introduction andre gunder frank and barry k. gills part ii: building blocks of theory and analysis 2. capital imperialism and exploitation in ancient world systems k. ekholm and j. friedman 3. the cumulation of accumulation barry k. gills and andre gunder frank 4. hegemonic transitions in the world system barry k. ... read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780415150897ISBN:0415150892
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 352 p. Audience: General/trade. Brand New. US student edition. Ships out quickly. read more
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