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| Introduction: Hegemonic Declines-Present and Past |
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Jonathan Friedman and Christopher Chase-Dunn |
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| PART I: On the Way to the Modern World-System |
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1 Escaping a Closed Universe: World-System Crisis, Regional Dynamics, and the Rise of Aegean Palatial Society |
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2 Structure, Dynamics, and the Final Collapse of Bronze Age Civilizations in the Second Millennium B.C. |
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51 | (38) |
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3 Plus Ça Change? On Not Learning from History |
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89 | (28) |
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| PART II: Comparing Modern Hegemonic Declines |
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4 Dutch Hegemony and Contemporary Globalization |
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117 | (18) |
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5 A Perspective on Ottoman Decline |
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135 | (18) |
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6 Polanyi's "Double Movement": The Belles Époques of British and U.S. Hegemony Compared |
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153 | (30) |
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Beverly J. Silver and Giovanni Arrighi |
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7 Globalization, Democratization, and Global Elite Formation in Hegemonic Cycles: A Geopolitical Economy |
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183 | (22) |
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| PART III: Hegemonic Decline and Resistance |
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8 Indigenous Peoples and Hegemonic Change: Threats to Sovereignty or Opportunities for Resistance? |
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205 | (22) |
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Thomas D. Hall and James V. Fenelon |
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9 Terrorism and Hegemonic Decline |
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227 | (14) |
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Alberti J. Bergeson and Omar A. Lizardo |
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| Index |
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241 | (12) |
| About the Contributors |
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253 | (2) |
| Series List |
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