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Number Volume 12, Issue 2, 2006 Year 2006

10 articles in this issue 

Peter Turchin, Jonathan M. Adams, Thomas D. Hall

Jared Diamond (1997) hypothesized that if environment is important in limiting the spread of cultures, cultural units would also tend to extend more broadly along lines of latitude than along lines of longitude. We test this hypothesis by studying the ran... see more

Pags. 219 - 229  

Robert Schon , Michael L. Galaty

The modern practice of archaeological surveyregional, intensive, diachronic, and interdisciplinaryis well-suited to the study of frontiers. In this paper we provide the example of the Shala Valley Project, which studies the northern Albanian mountain vall... see more

Pags. 231 - 262  

Kathleen C. Schwartzman

The study of globalization, prominent in all fields of social science, scarcely draws upon the insights generated by the world-systems theory. In this essay, I delineate five key dimensions on which a world-systems approach diverges from a world society a... see more

Pags. 265 - 307  

Clifford L. Staples

In a recent synopsis of theories and findings on transnational corporate ties published in this journal, Nollert (2005) argues that while there may be good theoretical reasons to hypothesize the emergence of a Transnational Capitalist Class (tcc), to this... see more

Pags. 309 - 319  

Manuela Boatca

This paper claims that, since many of the concepts relevant to our analysis of systemic change were coined in and about the core, the potential with which solutions to world-systemic crisis are credited in the long run should be assessed differently depen... see more

Pags. 321 - 346