A World-Systems Reader New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology

by Bartley, Tim; Bergesen, Albert; Boswell, Terry; Chase-Dunn, Christopher; Dunaway, Wilma A.; K. Chiu, Stephen W.; Flint, Colin; Grimes, Peter; Hall, Thomas D.; Laczko, Leslie S.; Misra, Joya; Peregrine, Peter N.; Shelley, Fred M.; Smith, David A.; So, Alvi

• ISBN13: 9780847691845
• ISBN10: 0847691845
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This book brings together some of the most influential 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. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Part I: Overview and Introduction
World-Systems Analysis: A Small Sample from a Large Universe	3	(26)
Thomas D. Hall
Recent Research on World-Systems	29	(30)
Peter Grimes
Part II: From Many Disciplines
Archaeology and World-Systems Theory	59	(10)
Peter N. Peregrine
Geography, Place, and World-Systems Analysis	69	(14)
Fred M. Shelley
Colin Flint
K-Waves, Leadership Cycles, and Global War: A Nonhyphenated Approach to World Systems Analysis	83	(22)
William R. Thompson
Gender and the World-System: Engaging the Feminist Literature on Development	105	(26)
Joya Misra
Part III: World-Systems Overviews
Canada's Linguistic and Ethnic Dynamics in an Evolving World-System	131	(12)
Leslie S. Laczko
Urbanization in the World-System: A Retrospective and Prospective	143	(26)
David A. Smith
World-Systems Theory in the Context of Systems Theory: An Overview	169	(12)
Debra Straussfogel
Postmodernism Explained	181	(14)
Albert J. Bergesen
Part IV: Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology
Women at Risk: Capitalist Incorporation and Community Transformation on the Cherokee Frontier	195	(16)
Wilma A. Dunaway
Resistance through Healing among American Indian Women	211	(26)
Carol Ward
Elon Stander
Yodit Solomon
Frontiers, Ethnogenesis, and World-Systems: Rethinking the Theories	237	(34)
Thomas D. Hall
Modern East Asia in World-Systems Analysis	271	(18)
Alvin Y. So
Stephen W. K. Chiu
Part V: Future Visions
From State Socialism to Global Democracy: The Transnational Politics of the Modern World-System	289	(18)
Terry Boswell
Christopher Chase-Dunn
World-System and Ecosystem	307	(16)
Albert J. Bergesen
Tim Bartley
Appendix 1 Political-Economy of the World-System Annuals	323	(2)
Appendix 2 Political-Economy of the World-System, Section of the American Sociological Association Winner of Annual Book Prizes	325	(2)
Index	327	(8)
About the Contributors	335