Date: 17 Jan 1993 17:56 +0100 (MET)
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Dear Chris. after exchange with Tom about biblios, he asks me to send
you my updated agf/bkg wshist list again, for YOU to pick and
chose what you like. I had asked him to tell me what of various
possibilities toput on net, and his answer is to send all to you!
So here goes, I hope its the new version and not some old one
that i have asciied.
 
 
WORLD SYSTEM HISTORY  - Recent Writings by Andre Gunder Frank
 
                     ANDRE GUNDER FRANK
                   University of Amsterdam
H. Bosmansstraat 57                   TEL Home: 31-20-664 6607
1077 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands        FAX Home: 31-20-676 4432
e-mail: gunderfrank@alf.let.uva.nl    FAX Univ: 31-20-620 3226
IF HOME FAX NOT ANSWER,CALL HOME TEL EUROP DAYTIME,OR FAX UNIV
 
 
BOOKS & MONOGRAPHS
 
Centrality of Central Asia
Amsterdam: VU University Press for Center for Asian Studies
Amsterdam (CASA), Comparative Asian Studies No.8, 1992, 68 pp.
 
The World System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand
edited with Barry K. Gills
London and New York: Routledge, 1993 forthcoming
(including revisions of some articles listed below)
 
IN EDITED BOOKS/READERS
 
5000 years of World System History: The Cumulation of
Accumulation  (with Barry K. Gills)
in Precapitalist Core-Periphery Relations, C. Chase-Dunn &
T. Hall, Eds. Boulder: Westview Press 1991, pp 67-111
 
1492 e America Latina o marxe da historia do sistema mundial:
492-992-1492-1992 es os cambios de hexemonia Leste-Oeste
America Latina: Entre a Realidade e a utopia
Aula Castelet de Filosofia, Ed.
Vigo: Edicions Xerais de Galicia 1992, pp. 171-212.
 
Forteen Ninety-two Once Again
1492: The Debate on Colonialism, Eurocentrism and History.
by J.M. Blaut with contributions by A.G. Frank, S. Amin, R.A.
Dodgshon, R. Palan & R. Taylor.
Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press 1992, pp 65-80
 
ARTICLES
 
A Theoretical Introduction to 5,000 Years of World System
History
Review (Binghamton) Vol.XIII, No.2, Spring l990,pp 155-248.
 
The Cumulation of Accumulation: Theses and Research Agenda for
5000 Years of World System History (with Barry K. Gills)
Dialectical Anthropology (New York/Amsterdam) Vol.15, No.1,
July 1990, pp. 19-42.
 
The Thirteenth Century World System: A Review Essay
Journal of World History Vol.I. No.2, Fall 1990,
pp 249-256.
 
A Plea for World System History
Journal of World History Vol.II,No.1,Spring l991,pp 1-28.
Cuadernos Americanos, Mexico, Vol. XXX, No. 4, Dec. 1991
 
De Quelles Transitions et de Quels Modes de Production s'agit-
il dans le Systeme-Monde Reel? Commentaire sur Wallerstein.
Sociologie et Societ
s Vol.XXII,No.2, Oct.1990,pp.207-19
[English version, see below]
 
Transitional Ideological Modes: Feudalism, Capitalism,
Socialism
Critique of Anthropology,Vol.11,No 2,Summer1991,pp171-188
Oriens, Moscow, forthcoming
 
The Centrality of Central Asia
Studies in History, New Delhi, Vol. 8, No. 1, January-June
1992, pp 43-92
Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Boulder USA, XXIV,2,
April-June 1992, pp 50-74.
 
Rejoinder [to Comments on The Centrality of Central Asia]
Studies in History, New Delhi, Vol.8, No.1, January-June 1992,
pp 118-22
Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Boulder USA, XXIV,2,
April-June 1992, pp 80-82.
 
Forteen Ninety-two Once Again
Political Geography Quarterly, Vol.11, No.4, July 1992,
pp 386-393
 
The Five Thousand Year World System: An Interdisciplinary
Introduction  [with Barry K. Gills]
Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, Arcata, Calif.
Vol. 18, No. 1, Spring l992, pp 1-79
 
FORTHCOMING
 
World System Cycles, Crises, and Hegemonial Shifts
1700 BC to 1700 AD   (with B. Gills)             (100 pp)
Review, Binghamton, XV, 4, Fall 1992 forthcoming
 
World System Economic Cycles and Hegemonial Shift to Europe
100 BC to 1500 AD  (w/ B. Gills)
     Journal of European Economic History, Rome, XXI, 3,
     Winter 1992  forthcoming
 
The World Is Round and Wavy: Demographic Cycles & Structural
Aanalysis in the World System. A Review Essay of
     Jack A. Goldstone's Revolutions and Rebellions in the
     Early Modern World. Berkeley: University of California
     Press 1991, xxix, 608 pp.
     Contention, Indiana University Press, Vol. II, No. 2
     Winter 1993 forthcoming
 
1492 and Latin America at the Margin of World System History:
East > West Hegemonial Shifts 992-1492-1992
     Comparative Civilizations Review forthcoming
 
The Bronze Age World System and its Cycles
     Current Anthropology  October 1993 forthcoming
 
CONFERENCE PAPERS  AND/OR SUBMITTED FOR PUBLICATION
Latin America at the Margin of World System History
     [second half only of above paper]
 
Lessons of the Perilous Frontier: Selections and Reflections
from "The Centrality of Central Asia"
Social Science History Assoc. New Orelans,Oct.31-Nov.3,1991
 
The list of publications above includes
 
- introductory/ theoretical essays:  "A Plea for World System
History" is the most general introduction and overview, and
"The Five Thousand Year World system: An Interdisciplinary
Introduction" examines how this approach relates to a dozen
disciplines and concerns from anthropology and archaeology,
civlizationism, classicism and medievalism, to international
relations, historical macro sociology, & world-system theory.
 
- a critique of received theory [1990] and a proposal of
alternative theory in "Cumulation of Accumulation" [1990/91]
 
- applications in "regional case studies" for Inner/Central
Asia and Latin America, and to topical problems in
"Transitional Ideological Modes: Feudalism, Capitalism,
Socialism," dis/continuity in 1492, and the review of Janet
Abu-Lughod's Before European Hegemony
 
- the "identification" and discussion of long cycles from 1700
BC to 1700 AD, and again separately in another paper for the
Bronze Age back to 3000 BC, and
 
- a forthcoming book edited by A.G. Frank & B. K. Gills with a
Foreword by William McNeill, which includes some of the
editors' writings listed above along with contributions on and
discussions of the theme "the world system: 500 or 5,000
years" by Janet Abu-Lughod, Samir Amin, Kajsa Ekholm and
Jonathan Friedman, Immanuel Wallerstein, and David Wilkinson.
 
THE MAIN THESES OF WORLD SYSTEM HISTORY by A.G. Frank
 
My historical work [some also in collaboration with Barry
Gills] is on 5,000 years of world system history in
Eurasia/africa [Afroasia/europe] and the incorporation of the
"new world" since 1492. A major purpose is to offer an
alternative to eurocentism, which is not afro-, sino-, islamo-
centered, but humanocentric instead. My principal "theoretical
handle"  is to extend the study of the WORLD SYSTEM
(Wallertein 1974, Frank 1978, Abu-Lughod 1989, Kohl 1989) back
as far as it will go. So far that is 5,000 years; but I do not
exclude going farther back, following the late J.K Fairbank's
admonition that historical work should begin at the end and
work backward as far as it will take us.
 
The main theoretical categories I rely on are
 
- 1. The world system itself. In my present view and per
contra Wallerstein (l974), the existence and development of
the world system in which we live stretches back at least five
thousand years (Frank 1990, 1991a,b; Gills and Frank 1990/91,
1992; Frank and Gills 1992). See list of publications below.
 
- 2. The process of capital accumulation as the motor force of
[world system] history. Wallerstein and others regard
continuous capital accumulation as the differentia specifica
of the "modern world-system." I have argued elsewhere that in
this regard the "modern" world system is not so different and
that this same process of capital accumulation has played a,
if not the, central role in the world system for several
millennia (see especially Frank 1991b and Gills and Frank
1990/91 as well as replies by Amin 1991 and by Wallerstein
1991, the latter also on the difference a hyphen [-] makes,
which are also included in Frank and Gills 1992).
 
- 3. The center-periphery structure in and of the world
[system]. This structure is familiar to analysts of dependence
in the "modern" world system and especially in Latin America
since 1492. I wrote about this among others in Frank (1967).
However, I now find that this analytical category is also
applicable to the world system before that.
 
- 4. The alternation between hegemony and rivalry or the
regional hegemonies and rivalries to succeed the previous
hegemon. The world system and international relations
literature has recently produced many good analyses of
alternation between hegemonic leadership and rivalry for
hegemony in the world system since 1492, for instance by
Wallerstein (1979), or since 1494 by Modelski (1987) and by
Modelski and Thompson (1988). However, hegemony and rivalry
for the same also mark world [system] history long before that
(Gills and Frank 1992, Frank and Gills 1992).
 
- 5. Long [and short] economic cycles of alternating ascending
[sometimes denominated "A"] phases and descending [sometimes
denominated  "B"] phases. In the real world historical process
and in its analysis by students of the "modern" world system,
these long cycles are also associated with  each of the
previous categories. That is, an important characteristic of
the "modern" world system is that the process of capital
accumulation, changes in center-periphery position within it,
and world system hegemony and rivalry are all cyclical and
occur in tandem with each other. For my part, I analyzed the
same for the "modern" world system under the title World
Accumulation 1492-1789 and Dependent Accumulation and
Underdevelopment (Frank 1978a,b). However, I now find that
this same world system cycle and many of its features also
extends back long before 1492 to at least the 3rd millennium
BC. These long cycles are identified and dated particularly in
the papers entitled "World System Cycles, Crises and
Hegemonial Shifts 1700 BC to 1700 AD" and "The Bronze and Iron
Age World System and its Cycles." Some independent empirically
based tests offer substantial confirmation of the existence of
these cycles and their datings.