Rise And Demise: Comparing World Systems - Hardcover

Chase-Dunn, Christopher

 
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Synopsis

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

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About the Author

Christopher Chase-Dunn is professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University. Thomas D. Hall is Lester M. Jones Professor of Sociology at DePauw University. Christopher Chase-Dunn is professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University. Thomas D. Hall is Lester M. Jones Professor of Sociology at DePauw University.

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ISBN 10:  0813310067 ISBN 13:  9780813310060
Publisher: Routledge, 1997
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