Contents INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 DEFINING WORLD-SYSTEMS AND CIVILIZATIONS Vignette: A World-System and Civilization Framework for Understanding the 9/11 Twin Towers Attack Conceptualizing World-Systems Case Study 1: Construction of a Hydroelectric dam in a Peripheral Costa Rican Community Conceptualizing Civilizations Case Study 2: Wilkinson''s Argument that "Civilizations are World Systems" CHAPTER 2 HISTORY OF TRIBAL SOCIETIES AND CULTURES Vignette: First Contacts with the Papuan Tribal Peoples of New Guinea Historical Overview of Tribal Societies and Cultures Pre-Historic Transformation from Bands to Tribes Case Study 3: Yanomami Tribal Peoples Historical Emergence of Tribal Chiefdoms Case Study 4: Powhatan Chiefdom Contemporary "Tribal Nations" (Australian Aborigines, Waziristan Pashtun Tribes, Garifuna) CHAPTER 3 HISTORY OF ANCIENT TRIBUTARY SOCIETIES AND CULTURES Vignette: Understanding an Ancient Cuneiform Tablet from Mesopotamia Historical Overview of the Ancient Eurasian Tributary Societies and Cultures Ancient Fertile Crescent (Mesopotamia, Egypt and Northeast Africa, Persia) Case Study 5: Emergence of Ancient Israel and Judaism Ancient Asia (China, India) Ancient Europe (Greece, Rome) Case Study 6: Samir Amin''s Perspective on the Ancient Network of Eurasian World-Systems and Classic Civilizations CHAPTER 4 HISTORY OF LATE PRE-MODERN TRIBUTARY SOCIETIES AND CULTURES Vignette: Mohammed the Messenger, Founder of an Islamic State and Religion Historical Overview of Late Pre-Modern Eurasian Societies and Cultures Imperial Core Powers of the Late Pre-Modern Eurasian World-System (Islamic, Chinese, and Byzantine empires) Case Study 7: Mediating Role of India within the Thirteenth-Century Eurasian Trade Network Feudal Peripheries of the Late Pre-Modern Eurasian World-System (Western Europe, Japan) Case Study 8: Russia, from Feudalism to Empire Late Pre-Modern "Outer Peripheral" and "Frontier" States (Sub-Sahara African States,Late Pre-Modern New World "Frontier" States) Case Study 9: Quetzalcoatl, a Mesoamerican Frontier Culture Hero CHAPTER 5 HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM AND ITS "OCCIDENTAL" CIVILIZATION Vignette: Queen Elizabeth at the Dawn of the Modern Era Defining "Occidentalism" Modern World-System and Its Western Core Powers Case Study 10: U.S. rise to World-System Hegemony Western Civilization and Its Impact on the Modern World-System Modern World-System Periphery and Resistance to the Western Core Powers Case Study 11: Occidentalism and Resistance through Heroic Suicide CHAPTER 6 HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM AND ITS "ORIENTAL" CIVILIZATIONS Vignette: Empress Dowager Cixi and Xuan Tong (Pu Yi), the Last Chinese Emperor Defining "Orientalism" Asia in the Context of the Modern World-System Periphery (China, Japan) Case Study 12: The Changing Role of Caste in Modern India Middle East in the Context of the Modern World-System Periphery Case Study 13: Iraq and the Saddam Hussein Wars CHAPTER 7 HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM AND ITS "POST-COLONIAL" CIVILIZATIONS Vignette: Initial Encounter between Spanish Colonizers and the Inka Defining "Post-Colonialism" Latin America in the Context of the Modern World-System Periphery Case Study 14: The Virgin of Guadalupe Cult, a Post-colonial Mexican Legacy Sub-Sahara Africa in the Context of the Modern World-System Periphery Case Study 15: Post-Colonial Symbolism and Indigenous Leaders in Modern South Africa CHAPTER 8 HISTORICAL ROUTES TO MODERNIZATION WITHIN THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM: DEVELOPMENT AND REVOLUTION Vignette: Robespierre and the French Revolution Modernization through Development Case Study 16: Development in Turkey Modernization through Revolution Case Study 17: Revolution in Nicaragua Failed Development, Failed Revolution Case Study 18: Rwanda''s Failed Development and Failed Revolution CHAPTER 9 HISTORY OF POST-MODERNIZATION AND THE FUTURE OF THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM AND ITS CIVILIZATIONS Vignette: McWorld vs. Jihad Defining the "Post-Modernization Case Study 19: U.S. Modernism Versus European Post-Modernism Defining the "Postmodern" Perspective Case Study 20: Michele Foucault, a Pioneer Postmodernist Competing Perspectives on the Future of the Modern World (Postmodern, Social History, Anthropological, World-System, and Civilizations) Summary and Conclusions Glossary Bibliography Index About the Author ES Vignette: Understanding an Ancient Cuneiform Tablet from Mesopotamia Historical Overview of the Ancient Eurasian Tributary Societies and Cultures Ancient Fertile Crescent (Mesopotamia, Egypt and Northeast Africa, Persia) Case Study 5: Emergence of Ancient Israel and Judaism Ancient Asia (China, India) Ancient Europe (Greece, Rome) Case Study 6: Samir Amin''s Perspective on the Ancient Network of Eurasian World-Systems and Classic Civilizations CHAPTER 4 HISTORY OF LATE PRE-MODERN TRIBUTARY SOCIETIES AND CULTURES Vignette: Mohammed the Messenger, Founder of an Islamic State and Religion Historical Overview of Late Pre-Modern Eurasian Societies and Cultures Imperial Core Powers of the Late Pre-Modern Eurasian World-System (Islamic, Chinese, and Byzantine empires) Case Study 7: Mediating Role of India within the Thirteenth-Century Eurasian Trade Network Feudal Peripheries of the Late Pre-Modern Eurasian World-System (Western Europe, Japan) Case Study 8: Russia, from Feudalism to Empire Late Pre-Modern "Outer Peripheral" and "Frontier" States (Sub-Sahara African States,Late Pre-Modern New World "Frontier" States) Case Study 9: Quetzalcoatl, a Mesoamerican Frontier Culture Hero CHAPTER 5 HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM AND ITS "OCCIDENTAL" CIVILIZATION Vignette: Queen Elizabeth at the Dawn of the Modern Era Defining "Occidentalism" Modern World-System and Its Western Core Powers Case Study 10: U.S. rise to World-System Hegemony Western Civilization and Its Impact on the Modern World-System Modern World-System Periphery and Resistance to the Western Core Powers Case Study 11: Occidentalism and Resistance through Heroic Suicide CHAPTER 6 HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM AND ITS "ORIENTAL" CIVILIZATIONS Vignette: Empress Dowager Cixi and Xuan Tong (Pu Yi), the Last Chinese Emperor Defining "Orientalism" Asia in the Context of the Modern World-System Periphery (China, Japan) Case Study 12: The Changing Role of Caste in Modern India Middle East in the Context of the Modern World-System Periphery Case Study 13: Iraq and the Saddam Hussein Wars CHAPTER 7 HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM AND ITS "POST-COLONIAL" CIVILIZATIONS Vignette: Initial Encounter between Spanish Colonizers and the Inka Defining "Post-Colonialism" Latin America in the Context of the Modern World-System Periphery Case Study 14: The Virgin of Guadalupe Cult, a Post-colonial Mexican Legacy Sub-Sahara Africa in the Context of the Modern World-System Periphery Case Study 15: Post-Colonial Symbolism and Indigenous Leaders in Modern South Africa CHAPTER 8 HISTORICAL ROUTES TO MODERNIZATION WITHIN THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM: DEVELOPMENT AND REVOLUTION Vignette: Robespierre and the French Revolution Modernization through Development Case Study 16: Development in Turkey Modernization through Revolution Case Study 17: Revolution in Nicaragua Failed Development, Failed Revolution Case Study 18: Rwanda''s Failed Development and Failed Revolution CHAPTER 9 HISTORY OF POST-MODERNIZATION AND THE FUTURE OF THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM AND ITS CIVILIZATIONS Vignette: McWorld vs.
Jihad Defining the "Post-Modernization Case Study 19: U.S. Modernism Versus European Post-Modernism Defining the "Postmodern" Perspective Case Study 20: Michele Foucault, a Pioneer Postmodernist Competing Perspectives on the Future of the Modern World (Postmodern, Social History, Anthropological, World-System, and Civilizations) Summary and Conclusions Glossary Bibliography Index About the Author Modern Eurasian World-System (Western Europe, Japan) Case Study 8: Russia, from Feudalism to Empire Late Pre-Modern "Outer Peripheral" and "Frontier" States (Sub-Sahara Afri.