1st Edition

Core/periphery Relations In Precapitalist Worlds

Edited By Christopher Chase-Dunn, Thomas Hall Copyright 1991
316 Pages
by Routledge

316 Pages
by Routledge

316 Pages
by Routledge

This book demonstrates that Immanuel Wallerstein's reluctance to apply core and periphery to precapitalist transformations is a product of the way he views the luxury trade. It utilizes the study of different kinds of world-systems to explore how logics of social reproduction become transformed.

Preface -- Introduction -- Conceptualizing Core/Periphery Hierarchies for Comparative Study -- Was There a Precapitalist World-System? -- 5000 Years of World System History: The Cumulation of Accumulation -- Cores, Peripheries, and Civilizations -- The Evolution of Societies and World-Systems -- Prehistoric Chiefdoms on the American Midcontinent: A World-System Based on Prestige Goods1 -- The Role of Nomads in Core/Periphery Relations -- The Monte Albán State: A Diachronic Perspective on an Ancient Core and Its Periphery -- Epilogue

Biography

Chase-Dunn, Christopher