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"City and Country traces the evolution of urban-rural systems 7,000 years ago into the modern global order and argues that at the heart of the logic of capitalism is an even deeper logic: urbanization is based on urban dependency"-- Provided by publisher.

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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Note on Biblical Quotes -- Preface -- Introduction -- Three Paradigms -- Environmental Demography -- Multidisciplinary Approaches -- Social Structuralism and Urbanormativity -- The Book -- Part I: The Environmental Demography of Urban-Rural Systems -- Chapter 1: Environmental Demography and Urban-Rural Systems -- Complex Adaptive Systems -- The World-System as a Complex System -- Humans as Biologically Adaptive -- Humans as Socially Adapted -- Complex Adaptive Urban-Rural Systems

Chapter 2: Classical Urban-Rural Theory -- First Wave Theories: Political Economy and Economic Geography -- Second Wave Theories: Culture and Complex Adaptive Systems -- Third Wave Theories: Spatial Organization and Rural-Urban Comparisons -- Chapter 3: Contemporary Urban-Rural Theory -- Evolutionary, Functionalist, and Modernization Theories -- The Political Economy Resurgence -- Turn of the Millennium Developments -- Conclusion: Status of Urban-Rural Theory -- Part II: From the Near East to the Northeast -- From the Near East to the Northeast -- Chapter 4: In the Beginning

Old Stone Age: The Paleolithic -- New Stone Age: The Neolithic -- The Stone Ages in Context -- Chapter 5: Emerging Urban-Rural Systems -- The Pottery Window into Culture -- Complex Society and Emerging Urban-Rural Systems -- Uruk and the First Cities -- The World-System as Urban-Rural System -- Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 6: History Begins -- The "System" Already Existed! -- Cities and Urbanization -- City-States and Empires -- Egyptian Emergence and Expansion -- Expanding Political Economies -- Cultural Continuities in Religious Belief -- A Multicultural Culture

Encoding Social Structure -- Chapter 7: Collapse or Continuity? -- The Great Catastrophe -- Independence from Colonizers -- The Rise of Assyria -- The Mediterranean World Takes Form -- Collapse and Reemergence -- Chapter 8: Dynamics Culminating -- Urban-Rural Dynamics and the Roman Empire -- Another World-System -- The Golden Age -- Anatomy of Collapse -- Barbarians (Finally) -- A New Plague -- Urban-Rural Dynamics Writ Large -- Chapter 9: World System -- A New Center -- A New Periphery -- Explorers and Slaves -- A New World -- Integration -- Origins of the Modern World-System? -- Conclusion

Part III: New York's Urban-Rural System -- Chapter 10: Fur -- Feudal Manors -- New York Cities -- The First American Industrial Revolution -- Breaks in the Transportation Network -- The Utica Urban-Rural System -- New York Water -- Growing a Major City -- Chapter 11: Growing the City -- Growth of the City -- Long Island -- Assessing the Pattern -- New York's Hinterland -- New York's Urban-Rural System -- Growing New York (State and City) -- Chapter 12: Change amid Growth -- Systemic Change at Lower Levels -- Restructuring East-Central New York I -- Restructuring East-Central New York II