Space and Transport in the World-System (Hardcover)

Introduction: Space, Transport, and World-Systems Theory by Paul S. Ciccantell and Stephen G. Bunker Ocean Transport Transportation Space: A Fourth Spatial Category for the World-Systems Perspective? by Philip E. Steinberg Power and the Shaping of Markets: The Global Order, Imperialism, and Shipping Nationalism by Baldev Raj Nayar "It's All About Market Share": Competition Among U.S. West Coast Ports for Trans-Pacific Containerized Cargo by John Gulick The Hazardous Waste Stream in the World-System by R. Scott Frey Land Transport The Spatial Reorganization of Trade and Class Struggle Over Transport Infrastructure: Southern Appalachia, 1830-1860 by Wilma A. Dunaway Raw Materials Transport and Regional Underdevelopment: Upper Michigan's Copper Country by Jonathan Leitner The Incorporation of West Africa: A Numerical Analysis of Railroad Expansion by Richard Lee Oil, Pipelines, and the "Scramble for the Caspian": Contextualizing Politics of Oil in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan by Saule Omarova Bulk Flow Systems and Globalization by Robert P. Clark Air Transport Cities and Spatial Articulation in the World-Economy: What Air Passenger Travel Tells Us About the Global City System by David Smith and Michael Timberlake Afterword: Space, Transport, and the Future of the Capitalist World Economy by Paul S. Ciccantell and Stephen G. Bunker Index