Format:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 213 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
1403980527
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1403965900
Series Statement:
Evolutionary Processes in World Politics Ser.
Content:
The rise and decline of great powers remains a fascinating topic of vigorous debate. This book brings together leading scholars to explore the historical evolution of world systems through examining the ebb and flow of great powers over time, with particular emphasis on early time periods
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; About the Authors; Preface; One: The Rise and Fall of Great Powers; Two: Eurasian C-Wave Crises in the First Millennium B.C.; Three: From Harappa to Mesopotamia and Egypt to Mycenae: Dark Ages, Political-Economic Declines, and Environmental/Climatic Changes 2200 B.C.-700 B.C.; Four: Power is in the Details: Administrative Technology and the Growth of Ancient Near Eastern Cores; Five: Power and Size: Urbanization and Empire Formation in World-Systems Since the Bronze Age
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Six: Lamb, Rice, and Hegemonic Decline: The Mongol Empire in the Fourteenth CenturySeven: The Rise of European Hegemony: The Political Economy of South Asia and Europe Compared, A.D. 1200-A.D. 1500; Eight: Contentious Peasants, Paternalist State, and Arrested Capitalism in China's Long Eighteenth Century; Nine: Space, Matter, and Technology in Globalization of the Past and Future; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781403965905
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Historical Evolution of World-Systems
Language:
English
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