This is a review of recent research on world-systems. We cover studies of the current system
and studies that compare the contemporary global system with earlier, smaller intersocietal …

Rome, Babylon, Mughal, Aztec, Inka... the names of these early empires evoke potent
images of monumental ambition, grandeur, and decay. Empires are geographically and …

The following collection of essays was produced over a period of fifteen years. Partly as a
result of this, there is significant overlap in a number of the chapters. This is due to their …

The notion that in significant parts of Eurasia the middle centuries of the first millennium bce
mark a significant transition in human cultural history, and that this period can be referred to …

Winner of the 2006 SAA Book Award The Bronze Age represents an age of unprecedented
social transformations in Europe. In a significant departure, Kristiansen and Larsson argue …

" The authors combine an excellent state-of-the-art review of the literature in world-systems
analysis with a vigorous presentation of their own quite coherent views. This book is a major …

This book uses comparative island archaeology to reinterpret a vital phase in early Aegean
history. Cyprian Broodbank presents the first modern analysis of Cycladic culture, tracing the …

The societies of the European Bronze Age produced elaborate artifacts and were drawn into
a wide trade network extending over the whole of Europe, even though they were …

The Bronze Age, roughly 2500 to 750 BC, was the last fully prehistoric period in Europe and
a crucial element in the formation of the Europe that emerged into history in the later first …

Although the global economy has more or less recovered from the most severe
manifestations of the global financial and economic crisis, it is obvious that the economy of …