The World System

Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand?

Andre Gunder Frank editor Barry Gills editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:28th Oct '93

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The historic long term economic interconnections of the world are now universally accepted. The idea of the economic 'world system' advanced by Immanuel Wallerstein has set the period of linkage in the early modern period but Andre Gunder Frank and Barry K. Gills think that this date is much too late. They argue an interconnection going back as much as 5000 years. In The World System, leading academics examine this issue, in a debate contributed to by William H. McNeill and Immanuel Wallerstein among others.

'I think it vital that this book should be widely read and discussed.' - Antiquity

ISBN: 9780415076784

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 748g

344 pages