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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 10:24:49 -0500
From: "A. Gunder Frank" <agfrank@chass.utoronto.ca>
Subject: New 1996 Paperback of WORLD SYSTEM book (fwd)
To: Chris Chase-Dunn <CHRISCD@jhu.edu>
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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 09:45:54 -0500 (EST)
From: "A. Gunder Frank" <agfrank@chass.utoronto.ca>
To: agf <agfrank@chass.utoronto.ca>
Subject: New 1996 Paperback of WORLD SYSTEM book
Subject: THE WORLD SYSTEM: FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OR FIVE THOUSAND?
edited by Andre Gunder Frank and Barry K. Gills
London and New York: Routledge 1993
hardcover LSt 40, US$ 65
NOW OUT IN PAPERBACK AT ABOUT US$ 25.
Excerpts from the publisher's blurb of orginal hardback edition:
"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