A world-systems reader: new perspectives on gender, urbanism, cultures, indigenous peoples, and ecology

This book brings together some of the most influential new 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.