BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
CIVILIZATIONS AND WORLD SYSTEMS: STUDYING WORLD HISTORICAL CHANGE,
edited by Stephen K. Sanderson, has just been published.
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CONTENTS
PART I: CIVILIZATIONAL APPROACHES TO WORLD-HISTORICAL CHANGE
S. Sanderson, Introduction
1. M. Melko, The Nature of Civilizations
2. D. Wilkinson, Central Civilization
3. W. Eckhardt, A Dialectical Evolutionary Theory of Civilizations, Empires,
and Wars
PART II: WORLD SYSTEM APPROACHES TO WORLD-HISTORICAL CHANGE
S. Sanderson and T. Hall, Introduction
4. C. Chase-Dunn and T. Hall, Cross-World-System Comparisons
5. B. Gills, Capital and Power in the Processes of World History
6. A.G. Frank, The Modern World-System Revisited: Rereading Braudel and
Wallerstein
7. A. Bergesen, Let's Be Frank About World History
8. A. Bosworth, World Cities and World Economic Cycles
PART III: CIVILIZATIONISTS AND WORLD SYSTEM THEORISTS: DIALOGUE AND INTERPLAY
S. Sanderson and T. Hall, Introduction
9. I. Wallerstein, Hold the Tiller Firm: On Method and the Unit of Analysis
10. D. Wilkinson, Civilizations _are_ World Systems!
11. S. Sanderson, Expanding World Commercialization: The Link Between
World-Systems and Civilizations
12. V. Roudometof and R. Robertson, Globalization, World-System Theory, and
the Comparative Study of Civilizations
PART IV: EPILOGUE
S. Sanderson, Introduction
13. W. McNeill, _The Rise of the West_ After Twenty-Five Years