The Historical Evolution of World-Systems

1. The Rise and Fall of Great Powers
E. N. Anderson, Christopher Chase-Dunn

2. Eurasian C-Wave Crises in the First Millennium B.C.
William R. Thompson

3. From Harappa to Mesopotamia and Egypt to Mycenae: Dark Ages, Political-Economic Declines, and Environmental/Climatic Changes 2200 B.C.–700 B.C.

Sing C. Chew

4. Power is in the Details: Administrative Technology and the Growth of Ancient Near Eastern Cores
Mitchell Allen

5. Power and Size: Urbanization and Empire Formation in World-Systems Since the Bronze Age
Christopher Chase-Dunn, Alexis Álvarez, Daniel Pasciuti

6. Lamb, Rice, and Hegemonic Decline: The Mongol Empire in the Fourteenth Century
E. N. Anderson

7. The Rise of European Hegemony: The Political Economy of South Asia and Europe Compared, A.D. 1200–A.D. 1500
Eric Mielants

8. Contentious Peasants, Paternalist State, and Arrested Capitalism in China’s Long Eighteenth Century
Ho-Fung Hung

9. Space, Matter, and Technology in Globalization of the Past and Future
Stephen G. Bunker, Paul S. Ciccantell

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, International Relations, Development Studies, Comparative Politics, Sociology, general, Anthropology, Political Science