World System History: The Social Science of Long-Term Change - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415232767 ISBN 13: 9780415232760

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

This extraordinary book presents a refreshing and innovative overview of the changes to the global system over the last 5000 years. Featuring renowned contributors - each specialists in their field - this is the only volume to offer so co-ordinated a study of continuity and change in the global social, economic and political system. Key areas covered include:

* International Political Economy - Robert A. Denemark
* Archaeology - Jonathan Freidman
* Economic development - Andre Gunder Frank
* History - George Modelski
* Sociology - Christopher Chase-Dunn

About this title

Synopsis:

This book is the fundamental starting point for the study of continuity and change in the global social, economic and political system over the longest historical term. Bringing together eminent interdisciplinary scholars, World System History considers the nature of social continuity back through history, resulting in a book which cuts across boundaries in social science and deals with at least 5000 years of the human past in a truly global perspective, No other volume offers so co-ordinated a picture of the issues or the prospects for the unified study of world system history. The kind of transdisciplinary cooperation needed to make sense of our complex world is made clear through a range of carefully co-ordinated and interactive contributions by archaeologists, anthropologists, students of economics, history, political science and sociology. This extraordinary book shows that in order to understand contemporary issues we must study the long term history of the world system. It will be a vital overview of perspective on the history of the world system for all graduates and researcher in a variety of fields such as international political economy, world history and sociology.

Andrew Bosworth University of Washington, USA Christopher Chase-Dunn Professor at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA Sing C. Chew Humboldt State University, California, USA

About the Author:

Robert A. Denemark is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. Jonathan Friedman is Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Lund. Bary K. Gills is at the University of Newcastle. George Modelski is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Washington.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0415232767
• ISBN 13: 9780415232760
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Denemark Robert. A, Friedman Jonathan, Gills Barry K., Modelski George