The World System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand?

by André Gunder Frank

Book Overview

The historic long-term economic interconnections of the world are now universally accepted. The idea of the 'world system' advanced by Immanuel Wallerstein has set the period of linkage in the early modern period. But some academics think this date is much too late and denies a much longer interconnection going back as much as five thousand years.
Reframing the chronology of the world system exercises powerful influences on the writing of history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415150892
• ISBN13: 9780415150897
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary