This book brings together key, incisive writings (published and unpublished) of the late Andre Gunder Frank on world development and world history. The selections provide the reader with a historical tracing of Gunder Frank's conceptual thinking on development, through to his views on world history, world development and globalization.

Autorentext
Sing C. Chew is Professor at Humboldt State University and senior research scientist in the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany. Pat Lauderdale is Professor of Justice at Arizona State University, and currently is a visiting scholar in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University.

Inhalt
PART I: ON NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT Introduction I: Sing C. Chew and Pat Lauderdale Andre Gunder Frank (1966) The Development of Underdevelopment Andre Gunder Frank (1967) The Sociology of Development and the Underdevelopment of Sociology PART II: FROM NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TO WORLD DEVELOPMENT: THE UNDERDEVELOPMENT OF DEVELOPMENT Introduction II: Sing C. Chew and Pat Lauderdale Reconceptualization of Theory and World History Andre Gunder Frank (1991) Transitional Ideological Modes: Feudalism, Capitalism, Socialism Andre Gunder Frank with Barry Gills (2002) A Structural Theory of the Five Thousand Year World System Andre Gunder Frank (1991) A Plea for World System History Introduction III: Sing C. Chew and Pat Lauderdale Beyond Eurocentrism, Systems Transformation, and Social Movements Andre Gunder Frank with Barry Gills (1992) The Five Thousand Year World System: An Interdisciplinary Introduction Andre Gunder Frank (1994) The World Economic System in Asia Before European Hegemony Andre Gunder Frank (2005) Debunk Mythology, ReOrient Reality Andre Gunder Frank with Marta Fuentes (1990) Social Movements