This book brings together some of the most influential research from the world-systems perspective. The authors survey and analyze new and emerging topics from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, from political science to archaeology. Each analytical essay is written in accessible language so that the volume serves as a lucid introduction both to the tradition of world-systems thought and the new debates that are sparking further research today.

This book brings together some of the most influential new research from the world-systems perspective. The authors survey and analyze new and emerging topics from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, from political science to archaeology. Each analytical essay is written in accessible language so that the volume serves as a lucid introduction both to the tradition of world-systems thought and the new debates that are sparking further research today.

Chapter 1 Introduction: World-Systems Analysis: A Small Sample from a Large Universe
Chapter 2 Recent Research in World-Systems Analysis
Part 3 From Many Disciplines
Chapter 4 Archaeology and World-Systems Theory
Chapter 5 Geography & World-Systems Analysis
Chapter 6 K-Waves, Leadership Cycles, and Global War: A Non-Hyphenated Approach to World Systems Analysis
Chapter 7 Gender and the World-System: Engaging the Feminist Literature on Development
Part 8 World-System Overviews
Chapter 9 Canada's Linguistic and Ethnic Dynamics in an EvolvingWorld-System
Chapter 10 Urbanization in the World-System: A Retrospective and Prospective Look
Chapter 11 World-Systems Theory in the Context of Systems Theory: An Overview
Chapter 12 Postmodernism Explained
Part 13 Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology
Chapter 14 Women at Risk: Capitalist Incorporation and Community Transformation on the Cherokee Frontier
Chapter 15 Resistance Through Healing among American Indian Women
Chapter 16 World-Systems, Frontiers, and Ethnogenesis: Rethinking the Theories
Chapter 17 Modern East Asia in World-Systems Analysis
Part 18 Future Visions
Chapter 19 Spiral of Socialism and Capitalism
Chapter 20 World System and Ecosystem