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Re: Collapse of systems

by Gunder Frank

29 October 1999 14:47 UTC


Gills & Frank WORLD SYSTEM: 500 YRS OR 5000? ESXPEC CJPT 5.
also frank Bronze Age world Sysrtem Cycles in CURREDNT ANTHRIPOOOGY
AUGC-
OCOn Fri, 29 Oct
1999, christopher chase-dunn wrote:

> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:46:52 -0400
> From: christopher chase-dunn <chriscd@jhu.edu>
> To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
> Cc: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
> Subject: Re: Collapse of systems
> 
> > I am interested in writing an essay on the collapse phenomena of
> social systems ( world systems or political systems). Can somebody give
> me
> some hints, brief review or books on the topics?
> 
> Yoffee, Norman and George L. Cowgill (eds.) The Collapse of Ancient
> States and Civilizations. University of Arizona Press 1988
> 
> Tainter, Joseph A. 1988 The Collapse of Complex Societies. Cambridge
> Univ. Press.
> 
> Also Spengler, Sorokin, Toynbee and Carroll Quigley (The Evolution of
> Civilizations).
> 
> Collapses are part of the normal development of social systems.
> 
> chriscd
> 
> 


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