Series Foreword by Immanuel Wallerstein

Introduction by Resat Kasaba

Cities Before European Hegemony

Was There an Islamic "City"? by Ellis Goldberg

Symbiotic Sisters: Bay of Bengal Ports in the Indian Ocean World-Economy by Ravi Arvind Palat

Hegemonic Cities of the Capitalist World-Economy

Hegemonic Cities in the Modern World-System by Richard Lee and Sheila Pelizzon

The Rise and Fall of Amsterdam and Dutch Hegemony: Evidence from the Baltic Sound Tolls, 1550-1750 by Terry Boswell, Joya Misra, and John Brueggemann

From Dhaka to Manchester: Factories, Cities, and the World-Economy, 1600-1900 by Kenneth Barr

The Formation of a Global Financial Center: London and Its Intermediaries by David R. Meyer

The Rise and Fall of Bohemian Enclaves: A World-System View by Randy Blazak

Semiotics of New York's Artistic Hegemony by Albert Bergesen

Cities Beyond the Core

Ottoman-Arab Seaports in the Nineteenth Century: Social Change in Alexandria, Beirut, and Tunis by Michael J. Reimer

Semiperipheral Urbanization? South Korea in the 1980s by David A. Smith

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