SOC 301: Topics: Globalization, The Long View
1-3:50 Wed Asbury 117
DePauw University
Fall 2007 Professor Thomas Hall
 Office:  106 Asbury, x 4519, email:  thall@depauw.edu
WEB: http://fs6.depauw.edu:50080/~thall/hp1.htm
 OFFICE HOURS:  Tu & Th 1:15 - 3pm; W 4-5pm; & by appt
Last Updated Thursday November 08, 2007
Reserves
Note: This list is divided into book at Roy. O West Library. Articles will either be on Moodle or at Roy O. West. They will be so noted.

Books:
Texts:
Hobson, John M.  2004.  The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation.   Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.   ISBN 0521547245    CB251 .H63 2004

Lechner, Frank J. and John Boli, eds.  2007.  The Globalization Reader, 3rd ed.  Malden, MA:  Blackwell.  ISBN 1405155531 available 8-15-07 [2nd ed: HF1359 .G59 2000; until 3rd arrives].
On ORDER

Liu, Xinru and Lynda Norene Shaffer. 2007. Connections across Eurasia: Transportation, Communication, and Cultural Exchange on the Silk Roads. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0072843519  HC420.3 .L58 2007

Robinson, William I.  2004. A Theory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class, and State in a Transnational World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801879272 HB501 .R625 2004

Sklair, Leslie.  2002.  Globalization:  Capitalism and Its Alternatives, 3rd ed.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199247447   HD2755.5 .S564 2002

Wallerstein, Immanuel.  2004. World-Systems Analysis:  An Introduction.  Durham, NC:  Duke University Press. ISBN 0822334429  HN13 .W35 2004

Other Books:
Appelbaum, Richard P. and William I. Robinson. 2005. Critical Globalization Studies. New York: Routledge, 2005.  HN17.5.C75 2005 [see Prof Hall before reviewing, will break up in sections]

Boswell, Terry and Christopher Chase-Dunn.  2000.  The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism:  The Decline of State Socialism and the Future of the World-System.  Boulder, CO: Lynne-Rienner. HC59.15 .B67 2000

Bunker, Stephen G. and Paul S. Ciccantell. 2005. Globalization and the Race for Resources. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. HC85 .B86 2005

Chase-Dunn, Christopher and Salvatore Babones. 2006. Global Social Change: Comparative and Historical Perspectives. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. HM831 .G495 2006 

Clark, Robert P.  2002.  Global Awareness:  Thinking Systematically About the World.  Lanham, MD:  Rowman & Littlefield.  JZ1318 .C59 2002

Foran, John, ed. 2003. The Future of Revolutions: Rethinking Radical Change in the Age of Globalization. London: Zed Books. HM876 .F88 2003

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. 2007. Globalization: The Key Concepts. Oxford: Berg. GN27 .E69 2007

Foran, John. 2005.Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. HN979 .F67 2005

Garnsey, Peter, Keith Hopkins, and C.R. Whittaker, eds. 1983. Trade in the Ancient Economy. Berkeley: University of California Press. HF375.T73 1983

Gills, Barry K.  2000.  Globalization and the Politics of Resistance. London: Routledge.  HF1418.5.G58184 2000

Harvey, David. 2005. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. New York: Oxford. HD87.H374 2005

Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri. 2000. Empire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. JC359.H279 2000

Keay, John. 2006. The Spice Route: A History. Berkeley: University of California Press. HD9210.A2K4 2006

Keck, Margaret E and Kathryn Sikkink.  1998.  Activists Beyond Borders.  Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. JF529 .K43 1998

Podobnik, Bruce and Thomas Ehrlich Reifer, eds. 2005. Transforming Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities in the Post 9/11 Era. Leiden: Brill. HM881 .G558 2005

Pomeranz, Kenneth. 2000. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press. HC240.P5965 2000

Pomeranz, Kenneth and Steven Topik, eds. 2006. The World That Trade Created, 2nd ed. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe. HF352.P58 W67 2006

Rhode, Paul W. and Gianni Toniolo, eds. 2006. The Global Economy in the 1990s: A Long-Run Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press. HC59.15 .G562 2006

Ross, Robert J. S. 2004. Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. HD2337 .R67 2004

Stiglitz, Joseph E. 2002. Globalization and Its Discontents. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. HF1418.5 .S75 2002

Articles [most will be on Moodle, if  not they will be at Roy O and so noted]:
Anderson, E.N. 2005. “Lamb, Rice, and Hegeomonic Decline: The Mongol Empire in the Fourteenth Century. Pp. 113-121 in The Historical Evolution of World-Systems, edited by Christopher Chase-Dunn and E. N. Anderson. New York and London: Palgrave.ON MOODLE

Babones, Salvatore. 2007. "Operationalizing "Globalization" in Empirical Sociology." Working Draft presented at American Sociological Association meeting, NY, NY, August. ON MOODLE

Böröcz, József. 2005. "Redistributing Global Inequality: A Thought Experiment." Economic and Political Weekly February 26:886-892. ON MOODLE

Guillen, Mauro F. 2001. “Is Globalization Civilizing, Destructive or Feeble? A Critique of Five Key Debates in the Social Science Literature.” Annual Review of Sociology 27: 235-60. HM1.A763 ON MOODLE

Hall, Thomas D. and Christopher Chase-Dunn. 2006. “Global Social Change in the Long Run.” Pp.33-58 in Global Social Change: Comparative and Historical Perspectives, edited by Christopher Chase-Dunn, Salvatore Babones. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. an on-line version is at: http://www.irows.ucr.edu/cd/courses/10/socchange.htm

Kentor, Jeffery and Jang, Young Suk.  2004.  “Yes There is a (Growing) Transnational Business Community:  A Study in Interlocking Directorates 1983-98.”  International Sociology 19:3(Sept.):355-368.  ON MOODLE

Laczko, Leslie S. 2005. “National and Local Attachements in a Changing World-System: Evidence from an International Survey.” International Review of Sociology – Revue Internationale de Sociologie 15:3(Nov.):517-528.

Podobnik, Bruce. 2005. “Resistance to Globalization: Cycles and Trends in the Globalization Protest Movement.” Pp. 51 – 68 in Transforming Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities in the Post 9/11 Era, edited by Bruce Podobnik and Thomas Reifer. Leiden: Brill.

Tainter, Joseph A. 2007. “Scale and Dependency in World-Systems: Local Societies in Convergent Evolution.” Pp. 3361-377 in Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change, edited by Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Ali Lanham, MD: Altamira Press. GE149.R49 2007

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