Rise And Demise - 9780367320157

Taylor & Francis

This book is a wide ranging and stimulating synthesis of the world-systems approach and its main findings. It covers parallel social processes in various regions which convincingly makes the argument that world-systems theory is able to integrate many diverse historical specializations. > Spanning ten thousand years of social change, this book examines the ways in which world-systems evolve. A comparative study of stateless societies, state-based regional empires, and the modern global capitalist political economy, it reveals the underlying processes at work in the reproduction and transformation of social, economic, and political s > Preface -- Introduction -- Concepts and Definitions -- A Hundred Flowers Bloom: Approaches to World-Systems -- Defining World-Systems -- Two, Three, Many World-Systems -- Explaining World-System Evolution -- New Territories: The Problem of Incorporation -- The Semiperiphery: Seedbed of Change -- Iterations and Transformations: A Theory of World-Sy.