The following resources are for use with IROWS' current
Urbanization and Empire Formation Project. All materials contained herein are
intended for academic use. Please contact Professor Christopher Chase-Dunn for permission
to publish materials that uses these files.
NSF HSD
Research Proposal; “Global state formation: modeling the rise, fall and
upward sweeps of large polities in world history and the global future”
Power and
Size: Urbanization and Empire Formation in World-Systems (PEWS02 paper)
ASA 2001
Presentation (for PowerPoint 97)
Settlement
Systems: Past and Present by C. Chase-Dunn and
A. Jorgenson
Estimating
the Population Sizes of Cities by Daniel Pasciuti and Chris Chase-Dunn
A
measurement error model for Estimating the Population
Sizes of Preindustrial Cities by Daniel Pasciuti
David
Wilkinson's (1992) Maps
SPSS dataset
(latest version)
Same dataset in Excel 97 format
Same dataset in
text format
Chase-Dunn's
and Willard's original dataset (in Excel 97 format)