Civilizations and World Systems Studying

Sanderson invites the leading figures in comparative civilizational studies and world systems analysis--including Wallerstein, MacNeill, Frank, Wilkinson, Chase-Dunn, and Robertson--to compare and contrast their assumptions and conclusions about broad-scale social and historical change. A mixture of newly commissioned work and recently published articles, this book is unmatched as a useful introduction to current thinking about global historical change.

Preface	p. 7
About the Authors	p. 11
The Nature of Civilizations	p. 25
Central Civilization	p. 46
A Dialectical Evolutionary Theory of Civilizations, Empires, and Wars	p. 75
Cross-World-System Comparisons: Similarities and Differences	p. 109
Capital and Power in the Processes of World History	p. 136
The Modern World System Revisited: Rereading Braudel and Wallerstein	p. 163
Let's Be Frank about World History	p. 195
World Cities and World Economic Cycles	p. 206
Hold the Tiller Firm: On Method and the Unit of Analysis	p. 239
Civilizations are World Systems!	p. 248
Expanding World Commercialization: The Link Between World-Systems and Civilizations	p. 261
Globalization, World-System Theory, and the Comparative Study of Civilizations: Issues of Theoretical Logic in World-Historical Sociology	p. 273
The Rise of the West after Twenty-Five Years	p. 303
Index	p. 321
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