The Historical Evolution of World-Systems

Introduction; E.N.Anderson & C.Chase-Dunn C-Wave Crises and Early Classical Era Trade Reorientation; W.Thompson From Harappa to Mesopotamia and Egypt to Mycenae: Dark Ages, Hegemonial Shifts and Environmental/Climatic Changes 2200 B.C. - 700 B.C.; S.Chew Power is in the Details: Administrative Technology and the Growth of Ancient Near Eastern Cores; M.Allen Power and Size: Urbanization and Empire Formation in World-Systems; C.Chase-Dunn , A.Alvarez & D.Pasciuti Lamb, Rice and Mongol Hegemonic Decline; E.N.Anderson The Origins of European Hegemony: The Political Economy of South Asia and Europe Compared (c.1200A.D.-1500); E.Mielants Contentious Peasants, Pateralist State and Arrested Capitalism in Chinas Long Eighteenth Century; H.F.Hung Matter, Space and Technology in Past and Future Hegemonies; S.Bunker & P.Ciccantell