Title: Rethinking world-systems : diasporas, colonies, and interaction in Uruk Mesopotamia /
Authors: Stein, Gil, 1956-
Publisher: University of Arizona Press,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Economic development.; Dependency.; Social interaction Turkey History.; Hacınebi Tepe (Turkey); Erech (Extinct city)
Abstract: "The Use of World-Systems Theory to explain the spread of social complexity has become accepted practice by both historians and archaeologists. Gil Stein now offers the first rigorous test of world-systems as a model in archaeology, arguing that the application of world-systems theory to noncapitalist, pre-fifteenth-century societies distorts our understanding of developmental change by overemphasizing the role of external over internal dynamics."