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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.

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

Thomas D. Hall is currently the Lester M. Jones Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at DePauw University.