Book Details
Format
Kindle
Pages
344
Language
English
Published
Apr 4, 2014
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
1136188037
ISBN-13
9781136188039
Description
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.