Space and Transport in the World-System

by Paul S. Ciccantell and Stephen G. Bunker

Key metaphors in world-system analysis are profoundly spatial, but there have been few attempts to understand how space, location, and topography affect world-system organization and process. To fill this gap, this book examines case studies of the restructuring of space and transport in core, semiperipheral, and peripheral economies. It addresses such topics as the role of ocean transport in linking terrestrially based units of the capitalist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313305021
• ISBN13: 9780313305023
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"