The world system :  five hundred years or five thousand / 
edited by André Gunder Frank and Barry K. Gills. 
 - xxii, 320 pages :  illustrations, maps ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Foreword --  List of Contributors --  Preface --  The 5,000-Year World System: an Interdisciplinary Introduction --  "Capital" Imperialism and Exploitation in Ancient World Systems --  The Cumulation of Accumulation --  Hegemonic Transitions in the World System --  World System Cycles, Crises, and Hegemonic Shifts, 1700 BC to 1700 AD --  Transitional Ideological Modes: Feudalism, Capitalism, Socialism --  Civilizations, Cores, World Economies, and Oikumenes --  The Ancient World-Systems Versus the Modern Capitalist World-System --  Discontinuities and Persistence: One World System Or a Succession of Systems? --  World System Versus World-Systems: A Critique --  Rejoinder and Conclusions --  Index.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415150892 9780415150897 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Economic history.<br/>Historiography.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>330.9