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  • CORE/PERIPHERY RELATIONS IN PRECAPITALIST WORLDS
    CHRISTOPHER CHASE-DUNN
    This book demonstrates that Immanuel Wallerstein's reluctance to apply core and periphery to precapitalist transformations is a product of the way he views the luxury trade. It utilizes the study of different kinds of world-systems to explore how logics of social reproduction become transformed. ...

    $1,039.00

  • RISE AND DEMISE
    CHRISTOPHER CHASE-DUNN
    "The authors combine an excellent state-of-the-art review of the literature in world-systems analysis with a vigorous presentation of their own quite coherent views. This book is a major contribution to our collective dialogue on the past and the future." —Immanuel Wallerstein Binghamton University, author of The Modern World-System "An up-to-date and synthetic overview of curr...

    $1,179.00

  • SOCIAL CHANGE
    CHRISTOPHER CHASE-DUNN / BRUCE LERRO
    From the Stone Age to the Internet Age, this book tells the story of human sociocultural evolution. It describes the conditions under which hunter-gatherers, horticulturalists, agricultural states, and industrial capitalist societies formed, flourished, and declined. Drawing evidence from archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, historical documents, statistics, and survey resear...

    $2,400.00

  • HEGEMONIC DECLINE
    JONATHAN FRIEDMAN / CHRISTOPHER CHASE-DUNN
    Although the United States is currently the world's only military and economic superpower, the nation's superpower status may not last. The possible futures of the global system and the role of U.S. power are illuminated by careful study of the past. This book addresses the problems of conceptualizing and assessing hegemonic rise and decline in comparative and historical perspe...

    $1,559.00

  • GLOBAL DEMOCRACY AND THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUMS
    JACKIE SMITH / MARINA KARIDES / MARC BECKER / DORVAL BRUNELLE / CHRISTOPHER CHASE-DUNN / DONATELLA DELLA
    The World Social Forum quickly became the largest political gathering in human history and continues to offer a direct challenge to the extreme inequities of corporate-led globalisation. It has expanded its presence and continues to be an exciting experiment in global and participatory democracy. The book's contributors have participated in World Social Forums around the globe....

    $1,099.00

  • OVERCOMING GLOBAL INEQUALITIES
    IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN / CHRISTOPHER CHASE-DUNN / CHRISTIAN SUTER
    This book examines the changing nature of global inequalities and efforts that are being made to move toward a more egalitarian world society. The contributors are world historical sociologists and geographers who place the contemporary issues of unequal power, wealth and income in a global historical perspective. The geographers examine the roles of geopolitics and patterns of...

    $1,039.00

  • THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL CONFLICT
    VOLKER BORNSCHIER / CHRISTOPHER CHASE-DUNN
    This critical analysis of long-term trends and recent developments in world systems examines such questions as: Will the cycles of boom and bust, peace and war of the past 500 years continue? Or have either long-term trends or recent changes so profoundly altered the structure of world systems that these cycles will end or take on a less destructive form? The noted internationa...

    $1,215.31