Peter Hanns Reill was an American historian. He taught history at the University of California, Los AngelesBalazs Szelenyi received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1998 and teaches classes on Philosophy, Globalization, Sociology and History for Northeastern University.

• Preface and Acknowledgements, Introduction Section 1: ORIGINS AND THEORETICAL DISCUSSIONS OF CORE-PERIPHERY RELATIONS Chapter 1: The Latin American Contribution to Center-Periphery Perspectives: History and Prospect, JOSEPH L. LOVE Chapter 2: From Plantation to Plant: Slavery, the Slave Trade, and the Industrial Revolution, JEAN BATOU Chapter 3: Theories and Realities: What are the Causes of Backwardness? DANIEL CHIROT Chapter 4: Development Possible? Possible Developments: A Research Agenda, IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN Section 2: FROM THE EUROPEAN PERIPHERY TO THE CORE AND BACK Chapter 5: Between Center and Periphery, EUGENE WEBER Chapter 6: Core, Periphery, and Civil Society, JÜRGEN KOCKA Chapter 7: Conceptions and Constructions: East Central Europe in Economic History, HELGA SCHULZ Chapter 8: Liberal Economic Nationalism in Eastern Europe during the First Wave of Globalization (1860–1914), THOMAS DAVID and ELISABETH SPILMAN Chapter 9: The Rise and the Fall of the Second Bildungsburgertum, IVÁN SZELÉNYI Section 3: GLOBALIZATION: ITS HISTORY, NATURE AND PROBLEMS Chapter 10: Globalization, Core, and Periphery in the World Economy of the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, HERMAN VAN DER WEE Chapter 11: The Pre-History of Core-Periphery, ROBERT BRENNER Chapter 12: Globalization and Its Impact on Core-Periphery Relations: Characteristics of Globalization, IVAN T. BEREND Chapter 13: From West European to World Science: Seventeenth–Twentieth Centuries, ERIC J. HOBSBAWM, Notes on Contributors, Index

"Brings together a number of prominent historians to investigate the nature of relations between developed areas or nations and those that are under-developed or emerging. The editors invited scholars with an impressive record of research on various aspects of development to refl ect on the concepts of core and periphery in order to forge new analytical tools to investigate the history of globalisation. The essays include interesting details on the history of dependency theory, provide an overview of some of the disputes on the role of individual factors in spurring or hindering industrialisation and sustained development, and many of the contributions, if not all, also summarise past research achievements and make some very interesting observations or speculations on the implications of a particular argument along the way."