CONTENTS


Preface                                 ix
About the Editors and Contributors     xiii


     Introduction, Christopher Chase-Dunn
     and Thomas D. Hall                  1

1    Conceptualizing Core/Periphery           
       Hierarchies  for Comparative Study,    
         Christopher Chase-Dunn
               and Thomas D. Hall        5

2    Was There a Precapitalist World-System?
     Jane Schneider                     45

3    5000 Years of World System History:
     The Cumulation of Accumulation,
     Barry K. Gills 
      and Andre Gunder Frank            67

4    Cores, Peripheries, and Civilizations,
     David Wilkinson                   113

5    The Evolution of Societies 
       and World-Systems,
     Stephen K. Sanderson               167

6    Prehistoric Chiefdoms on the American    
       Midcontinent:
     A World-System Based on Prestige Goods, 
     Peter Peregrine                    193

7    The Role of Nomads in Core/Periphery     
       Relations,
     Thomas D. Hall                     212

8    The Monte Alb n State: A Diachronic      
       Perspective on an Ancient Core and its 
       Periphery,
     Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas 240

     Epilogue, 
       Christopher Chase-Dunn and             
        Thomas D. Hall       277


     Index                        291