Core/Periphery Relations in Precapitalist Worlds

Edited by Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall

Published by Westview Press, Boulder, CO 1991

 

 

 

 

 

 

                  CONTENTS

 

 

 

 

Preface                                 ix

About the Editors and Contributors     xiii

 

 

 

 

     Introduction, Christopher Chase-Dunn

     and Thomas D. Hall                  1

 

 

1    Conceptualizing Core/Periphery          

       Hierarchies  for Comparative Study,   

         Christopher Chase-Dunn

               and Thomas D. Hall        5

 

 

2    Was There a Precapitalist World-System?

     Jane Schneider                     45

 

 

3    5000 Years of World System History:

     The Cumulation of Accumulation,

     Barry K. Gills

      and Andre Gunder Frank            67

 

 

4    Cores, Peripheries, and Civilizations,

     David Wilkinson                   113

 

 

5    The Evolution of Societies

       and World-Systems,

     Stephen K. Sanderson               167

 

 

6    Prehistoric Chiefdoms on the American   

       Midcontinent:

     A World-System Based on Prestige Goods,

     Peter Peregrine                    193

 

 

7    The Role of Nomads in Core/Periphery    

       Relations,

     Thomas D. Hall                     212

 

 

8    The Monte Alb n State: A Diachronic     

       Perspective on an Ancient Core and its

       Periphery,

     Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas 240

 

 

     Epilogue,

       Christopher Chase-Dunn and            

        Thomas D. Hall       277

 

 

 

 

     Index                        291