The historic long term economic interconnections of the world are now universally accepted. The idea of the economic 'world system' advanced by Immanuel Wallerstein has set the period of linkage in the early modern period but Andre Gunder Frank and Barry K. Gills think that this date is much too late. They argue an interconnection going back as much as 5000 years. In The World System, leading academics examine this issue, in a debate contributed to by William H. McNeill and Immanuel Wallerstein among others.

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Cover
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Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Foreword by William H. McNeill
List of Contributors
Preface by Andre Gunder Frank and Barry K. Gills
Part I Introduction
Part II Building blocks of theory and analysis
Part III Using the theory to reanalyze history
Part IV The world system: 500 years or 5,000? Discussing the theoretical, historical, and political issues
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