Nitz - Early-Modern World-System in Geographical Perspective (table of contents)

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
Contributors

General Introduction 1
Hans-Jürgen Nitz 26
42
Part I Critical Discussion of the Concept 62

1 The Early Modern World-System: A Critique of its 84
Inner Dynamics 93
Robert A. Dodgshon 115
120
2 World-System Theory: Implications for Historical and
Regional Geography 136
Gerard A. Hoekveld

3 The European World-System: A von Thünen
Interpretation of its Eastern Continental Sector
Hans-Jürgen Nitz

Part II The European Core

4 The Northern Netherlands: Centre and Periphery in the
European Core
Taeke Stol

5 The Southern Netherlands: Part of the Core or Reduced
to a Semi-Peripheral Status?
Pieter Saey and Antoon Verhoeve

6 Northern Italy: Secondary Core or Reduced to a Semi-
Peripheral Role?
Wilhelm Matzat

7 The Venetian Economy and the World-Economy of the
17th and 18th Centuries
Salvatore Ciriacono

Part HI Proto-Industrial and Mining Regions of the Semi-
Periphery

8 Proto-Industrial Regions in England, with a Brief
European Contextual Perspective
Robin A. Butlin

9 The Industries of the Western Regions in France from 151
the 15th to the 19th Century 162
Jacques Pinard
172
10 Early Modern Mining Regions of the Continent 191
Dietrich Denecke 204
219
Part IV The European Periphery 234
248
11 Spatial Changes in Poland under the Impact of the 265
Economic Dynamics of the 16th and 17th Centuries
Anna Dunin-Wasowiczowa 296
305
12 The Impact of the Evolution of Large Estates on the 317
Rural Settlements of Silesia and Pomerania
Halina Szulc

13 Ireland in the World-System 1600-1800
Kevin Whelan

14 Beef Cattle Production in the European Periphery: A
Case Study from the Island of Zealand, Denmark
Karl-Erik Frandsen

15 The Hungarian Economy within the Modern World-
System
Vera Zimânyi

16 Wine in the Early Modern World-System: Profit,
Production and Exchange
Tim Unwin

17 The Timber and Naval Stores Supply Region of
Northern Europe during the Early Modern European
World-System
Ian G. Layton

Part V The American Colonial Periphery

18 Economic Evaluation and Reconstruction under Spanish
Dominance: Middle America and the Caribbean
Ursula Ewald

19 The Early Modern World-System - Periphery-Core
Interactions as Exemplified by Plantation Regions of
the Carribean
David Watts

20 At the Cutting Edge: Indians and the Expansion of the
Land-Based Fur Trade in Northern North America,
1550-1750
Arthur J. Ray

Part VI External Arenas 327
343
21 The Role of the Eastern Mediterranean (Levant) for the 355
Early Modern World Economy 1500-1800 366
J. Malcolm Wagstaff 383

22 The Role of the Ottoman Empire for the Early Modern
European World-System
Wolf Hütteroth

23 Plan and Reality in the Evolution of the Cape Colony
A. J. Christopher

24 Commercial Manufacturing in Southeastern India in the
Early Modern Period
Brian J. Murton

25 The Changing Role of Port Cities as Part of the
European Expansion in the Southeast Asian
Archipelago: Outlining an Approach

Wolfram Jacket