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From: "A. Gunder Frank" <agfrank@epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: book
From: ANDRE GUNDER FRANK
University of Amsterdam
96 Asquith Ave. Toronto, Ont. Canada M4W 1J8
Tel:416-972 0616 Fax:416-972 0017 & 978 3963
e-mail: agfrank@epas.utoronto.ca
Subject: THE WORLD SYSTEM: FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OR FIVE THOUSAND?
edited by Andre Gunder Frank and Barry K. GHills
London and New York: Routledge 1993
hardcover LSt 40, US$ 65
This is to request/encourage you and/or your colleagues to
certify a market potential [especially for teaching purposes] for
a paperback edition of this otherwise inacessibly expensive book
to the publisher/editor, who is now considering re-print
possibilities. Please e-mail [with cc to me] or air-mail
Ms Heather McCallum
Routledge, 11 Fetter Lane, London EC4 4EE, England
e-mail: HMCCALLUM@ROUTLEDGE.COM
Excerpts from the publisher's blurb:
"THE WORLD SYSTEM confronts the idea that historic long term
economic inter-connectedness did not begin, as some say, 500
years ago but rather 5,000. The book broadly poses a challenge to
Eurocentric world history and offers a humanocentric alternative
analysis addressed to a wide range of disciplines. The editors
have gathered an impressive array of scholars involved in world
system analysis, and include both statments of and responses to
the various aspects and issues created by these controvesial and
challenging theories of 'one world system.'
Chapter title topics include:
interdisciplinary introduction; imperialism in ancient world
systems; civilizations, world economies and oikumenes; capital
accumulation; hegemonic transitions; cycles, crises and hegemonic
shifts 1700 BC to 1700 AD; ancient versus modern world-systems;
discontinuities and persistence; world system versus world-
systems; feudalism, capitalism, socialism.
Contributors are:
Foreword by William H. McNeill
Preface by Andre Gunder Frank and Barry K. Gills
In support of the theory, chapters by:
A.G. Frank and B.K. Gills [5 chapters individually jointly]
Kaisa Ekholm and Jonathan Friedman
David Wilkinson
Critical of the theory, chapters by
Samir Amin
Immanuel Wallerstein
In part supporting, in part critical, chapter by
Janet Abu Lughod
Rejoinder and Conclusions by A. G. Frank and B.K. Gills
Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn
Department of Sociology
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA
tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhu.edu