Special Section: The World-Historical Imagination: Giovanni Arrighi's The Long Twentieth Century in Prospect and Retrospect
Guest Edited by Jason W. Moore

Jason W. Moore
Introduction: The World-Historical Imagination

John Gulick
The Long Twentieth Century and Barriers to China's Hegemonic Accession

Benjamin D. Brewer
The Long Twentieth Century & the Cultural Turn: World-Historical Origins of the Cultural Economy

John M. Talbot
The Coffee Commodity Chain in the World-Economy: Arrighi's Systemic Cycles and Braudel's Layers of Analysis

Jan-Frederik Abbeloos and Eric Vanhaute
Cutting the Gordian Knot of World History: Giovani Arrighi's Model of The Great Divergence and Convergence

Jason W. Moore
Ecology, Capital, and the Nature of our Times: Accumulation & Crisis in the Capitalist World-Ecology

Regular Section

Richard York and Christina Ergas
Women's Status and World-System Position: An Exploratory Analysis

Jon D. Carlson
Externality and Incorporation in the World-System: Abyssinia - Anomaly or Palimpsest?

Kees Terlouw
Five Centuries of Regional Development in Northwest Germany and the Netherlands

Jenny R. Kehl
Hydropolitical Complexes and Asymmetrical Power: Conflict, Cooperation, and Governance of International River Systems

Book Review Essay

Review Essay: Understanding Latin America in the Era of Globalization (Glen David Kuecker)

Edmund Burke, III and Kenneth Pomeranz (eds.), "The Environment and World History" (Reviewed by Mark D. Whitaker)

Peter Turchin and Sergey A. Nefedov, "Secular Cycles" (Reviewed by Salvatore Babones)

Christopher I. Beckwith, "Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present" (Reviewed by Sing C. Chew)

Kate Bedford, "Developing Partnerships: Gender, Sexuality and the Reformed World Bank" (Reviewed by Claire Laurier Decoteau)

Margarita Cervantes-Rodriguez, Ramon Grosfoguel, and Eric Mielants (eds)., "Caribbean Migration to Western Europe and the United States: Essays on Incopration, Identity, and Citizenship" (Reviewed by Maureen A. Eger)

Bin Yang, "Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE" (Reviewed by Thomas D. Hall)

Ho-fung Hung, "China and the Transformation of Global Capitalism" (Reviewed by Edward Friedman)

Tonio Andrade, "How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventh Century" (Reviewed by Huei-Ying Kuo)

Valentine Moghadam, "Globalizatoin and Social Movements: Islamism, Feminism, and the Global Justice Movement" (Reviewed by Gina Marie Longo)

Salvatore Babones, "The International Structure of Income: Its Implications for Economic Growth" (Reviewed by Matthew Mahutga)

Riley Dylan, "Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe: Italy Spain and Romania, 1870-1945" (Reviewed by Brendan McQuade)

Vaclav Smil, "Why America is Not a New Rome" (Reviewed by Elizabeth Seale)