"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"--.

• 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
  • The Morphology of Capitalism
• Chapter 13: New York and the World-System
  • Urbanormativity and the World-System
  • The World as New York’s Hinterland
  • Urbanormative Political Economy
  • An Underlying Dynamic
• Chapter 14: Urban-Rural Dynamics Revisited
  • Humans Are Nature
  • Post-Script
• Further Reading
• Appendix A: Definition of Population-Related Municipalities
• Appendix B: Coding Downtowns
• References
• Index
• About the Authors