new book now available

Nick Kardulias informs me that the collection of  world-systems research
articles he edited is now available from Rowman and Littlefield.
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World-Systems Theory in Practice: Leadership, Production, and Exchange
1999, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, MD.  P. Nick Kardulias, editor

Contents

List of Figures and Tables
ix

Foreword
xi

Acknowledgments                                                 xv

Preface                                                         xvii


1       World-Systems and Evolution:  An Appraisal
1
        Thomas D. Hall

2       Goodness of Fit: On the Relationship Between Ethnographic
        Data and World-Systems Theory
25
        Mark T. Shutes

3       Legitimation Crises in Prehistoric
Worlds                               37
        Peter N. Peregrine

4       The Changing Structure of Macroregional Mesoamerica:
        The Classic-Postclassic Transition in the Valley of Oaxaca
53
        Gary M. Feinman

5       Negotiated Peripherality in Iron Age Greece:
        Accepting and Resisting the
East                                        63
        Ian Morris

6       Production Within and Beyond Imperial Boundaries:
        Goods, Exchange, and Power in Roman Europe
85
        Peter S. Wells

7       The Emerging World-System and Colonial Yucatán:
        The Archaeology of Core-Periphery Integration, 1780-1847
103
        Rani T. Alexander

8       Thoughts on the Periphery: The Ideological Consequences
        of Core/Periphery
Relations                                             125
        Patricia A. Urban and Edward M. Schortman


9       Rethinking World-Systems: Power, Distance, and
        Diasporas in the Dynamics of Interregional Interaction
153
        Gil J. Stein

10      Multiple Levels in the Aegean Bronze Age World-System
179
        P. Nick Kardulias

11      World-Systems Theory, Core-Periphery Interactions, and
        Elite Economic Exchange in Mississippian Societies
203
        Robert J. Jeske

12      The Inca Empire: Detailing the Complexities of
         Core/Periphery Interactions
223
        Lawrence A. Kuznar

13      The Evolutionary Pulse of the World System:
        Hinterland Incursions and Migrations, 4000 B.C. to A.D. 1500
241
        George Modelski and William R. Thompson

14      Abuses and Uses of World Systems Theory in Archaeology
275
        Andre Gunder Frank

15      Does World-Systems Theory Work?:
        An Ethnographer’s Perspective
297
        Darrell LaLone

16
Conclusion
309
        P. Nick Kardulias


Index
315

        About the Contributors
323


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