Civilizations and World Systems by Stephen K Sanderson

Civilizations and World Systems by Stephen K Sanderson

The grand historical and social theorizing of early in this century-works that conjure up names like Marx, Spengler, Toynbee, and Sorokin-has been out of favor for many years. Only recently have two new schools of research, comparative civilizational studies and world systems analysis, emerged to examine societies in the broadest possible terms. These two intellectual movements have run on parallel tracks, seldom engaging in each other's work-until now! Sanderson invites the leading figures in these two groups-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.

Sanderson has made a notable contribution to the literature by bringing together the pieces included in this bookHe has also made a very worthy effort in summarizing each perspective at the beginning of the first two parts and in pointing out basic questions for discussion....It should also fit nicely in reading lists for third-year undergraduate and graduate seminars on world historical change and the contemporary international system. -- Gordon Mace * Perspectives on Political Science *

Sanderson, Stephen K.: - Stephen K. Sanderson is a research fellow at the Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of California at Riverside, USA.

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ISBN 13	9780761991052
ISBN 10	0761991050
Title	Civilizations and World Systems
Author	Stephen K Sanderson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	AltaMira Press,U.S.
Year published	1995-11-07
Number of pages	300
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