Thomas D Hall
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas D Hall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas D |
| FAMILY NAME | Hall |
| SIGNATURE | HALL T D |
| AFFILIATIONS | DePauw University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 88 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 456 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 86 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1940 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous peoples” is a modern concept used mainly by scholars and international organizations to describe culturally diverse groups with varied histories currently living in many states and regions around the world. Most contemporary Indigenous peoples share a history of colonization in which their territory was appropriated and their language and culture subordinated. Indigenous groups typically live in, or maintain attachments to, geographica…
Global Indigenism and the Web of Transnational Social Movements
Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1930–2019)
Core/Periphery Relations in Precapitalist Worlds
Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1930–2019)
Currently, the main source for the reconstruction of the most ancient history of humankind is archeology, which almost by definition makes it possible to restore only just a few elements of the most ancient human culture (naturally, almost exclusively -material culture). A mere introduction of comparative linguistic data makes it possible to significantly refine our reconstruction of a respective culture. If a certain linguistic Urheimat may be l…
Rise and Demise: Comparing World Systems
Comparing Globalizations
Farmers, Hunters, and Colonists: Interaction between the Southwest and the Southern Plains
Eight contributors discuss early trade relations between Plains and Pueblo farmers, the evolution of interdependence between Plains hunter-gatherers and Pueblo farmers between 1450 and 1700, and the later comanchero trade between Hispanic New Mexicans and the Plains Comanche
Comparing Globalizations: Historical and World-Systems Approaches
Environment, Power, Development in Global South: Revolutions, Blue & Green
Islam, Md. Saidul. 2013. Development, Power, and the Environment: Neoliberal Paradox in the Age of Vulnerability. New York: Routledge. Islam, Md. Saidul. 2014. Confronting the Blue Revolution: Industrial Aquaculture and Sustainability in the Global South. Toronto: University of Toronto Press
Indigenous Peoples
“Indigenous peoples” is a modern concept used mainly by scholars and international organizations to describe culturally diverse groups with varied histories currently living in many states and regions around the world. Most contemporary indigenous peoples share a history of colonization in which their territory was appropriated and their language and culture were subordinated. Indigenous groups typically live in, or maintain attachments to, geogr…
Ethnicity and World‐Systems Analysis
This chapter argues that scholars interested in ethnicity–and other forms of identity–in the ancient Mediterranean should consider the study of ethnogenesis and ethnic identity in light of the world-systems analysis (WSA) tradition, an approach to social change and development that is of use in understanding ethnic processes by placing them within a dynamic model for explaining social change. Conversely, those same scholars are in a position to e…
A ‘Perfect Storm’ in the Collapse of Bronze Age Civilization? Useful Insights and Roads not Taken
The Year Civilization Collapsed, is a detailed account and discussion of how civilization, at least in the eastern Mediterranean, collapsed. The date, 1177 BC, is more or less the midpoint of a process that took many years and was the consequence of changes that occurred in the preceding four centuries. The eastern Mediterranean spans the west coast of modern Greece, to Mesopotamia on east, and just south of the Black Sea through upper Egypt-that…
Reflections on Violence in the Spanish Borderlands: A Review Essay on Chiricahua and Janos by Lance R. Blyth
A Review Essay on Chiricahua and Janos: Communities of Violence in the Southwestern Borderlands, 1680-1880 by Lance R. Blyth (University of Nebraska Press, 2012)
Lessons from Comparing the Two Southwests: Southwest China and Northwest New Spain/Southwest US
I compare and contrast two "southwestern"" frontiers: the southwestern United States. long northeast New Spain (short hand: New Mexico) and southwest China (short hand: Yunnan). Both have been. and even today remain. frontier zones. In the 2]51 century both are also important borderlands for two of the most important players in the modern world-system. the United States and China. They share a historical orientation to the areas outside of the tw…
Resilience and Community in the Age of World-System Collapse
In this essay we explore how humans might face systemic collapse and/or entry into a dark age through forms of community resilience. We also note that nature, types of communities, and degrees of resilience differ in core, peripheral, and semiperipheral areas of the contemporary world-system. Core or global north or first world communities have all but disintegrated due to neoliberal policies. However, communities in peripheral and semiperipheral…
The Silk Road: A Review Essay on Empires of the Silk Road by Christopher I. Beckwith
The Silk Road: A Review Essay on Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present. by Christopher I. Beckwith (Princeton University Press, 2009)
Patterns of Exchange: Navajo Weavers and Traders
Book Review| October 01 2010 Patterns of Exchange: Navajo Weavers and Traders Patterns of Exchange: Navajo Weavers and Traders. By Teresa J. Wilkins. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xiv + 231 pp. Map, photos, appendix, notes, index, and bibliography. $34.95 (cloth). Thomas D. Hall Thomas D. Hall DePauw University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2010) 30 (1): 133–134. https…
World-Systems Analysis and Archaeology: Continuing the Dialogue
Many archaeologists have used world-systems analysis in precapitalist settings. Some have criticized it; others have dismissed it out of hand. Critiques include that it was developed for the "modern" world, that it is overly economistic, that it neglects individual actors, and that it inappropriately uses modern analyses in ancient settings. Although there is some validity to these charges when applied to Wallerstein's original formulation, most …
Puzzles in the Comparative Study of Frontiers: Problems, Some Solutions, and Methodological Implications
This paper examines ways in which world-system analysis can be employed fruitfully to explore frontier social processes. Conversely, it also examines how frontier social processes and events can be very valuable explorations of highly localized processes geographically and temporally of world-systems. The study of frontier regions can help to uncover the ways in which many world-systemic contexts shape local human agency. Conversely, the study of…
Introduction: Review Symposium on Giovanni Arrighis Adam Smith in Beijing
About sixteen months ago we began discussing commissioning a series of review essays on Arrighi s Adam Smith in Beijing. The original idea was to publish a collection of essays from various world-systems scholars, and have Arrighi respond. As we all know, Giovanni became ill and sadly passed in summer of 2009. In commissioning the essays as book review editor I faced a special challenge. Some likely writers had already committed to essays for oth…
Indigenous Movements and Globalization: What is Different? What is the Same
Too often indigenous movements are lumped in with [anti-]globalization, globalization protest movements, or the ‘new social movements’. While in some respects this categorization fits, in other, more important respects it does not. Indigenous peoples have been resisting globalization and globalization-like forces for centuries in the western hemisphere, and for millennia in Africa and Eurasia. While the forms of resistance have changed significan…
Revitalization and Indigenous Resistance to Globalization and Neoliberalism
This article reviews discussions and case studies of indigenous peoples, especially American Indians (Lakota, Navajo, and Wampanoag), the Zapatista movement, Latin American examples (Mapuche, Guarani, and Miskito), the Adevasi in India, and the Maori, adding short sketches of Kurds in the Middle East, Pashtun in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and cases from Africa and southeast Asia to develop a general indigenous model, including social systems of de…
Archaeology and world-systems analysis
Many archaeologists have criticized world-systems analysis (WSA) for being overly economistic, ignoring individual actors and importing modern analyses to ancient settings where they are inappropriate. Those criticisms are directed largely at Immanuel Wallerstein's original formulation that was explicitly developed to explain contemporary global inequalities within and among states. In that sense there is validity to these charges. We argue, howe…
Indigenous Peoples
Throughout most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, scholars and policymakers predicted the disappearance of Native Americans and indigenous peoples in general (see Dippie 1982 for many examples). Global patterns of urbanization, industrialization, and resource extraction indeed have led to a reduction in the number of indigenous people living traditional lifestyles on ancestral lands. However, those who predicted the demise of indigenousn…
World-System Theory
The term intersectionality references the critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but rather as reciprocally constructing phenomena. Despite this ...Read More
Incorporation in the World-System: Toward a Critique
White Self-Esteem: The Urban School Child (Arnold M. and Caroline Rose Monograph Series). Washington, DC, American Sociological Association. Schooler, Carmi. 1984. Psychological Effects of Complex Environments During the Life Span: A Review and Theory. Intelligence 8:259-81. Schooler, Carmi, Melvin L. Kohn, Karen A. Miller, and Joanne Miller. 1983. Housework as Work. Chapter 10 in and Personality: An Inquiry Into the Impact of Social Stratificati…
World-Systems Analysis and Archaeology: Continuing the Dialogue
Many archaeologists have used world-systems analysis in precapitalist settings. Some have criticized it; others have dismissed it out of hand. Critiques include that it was developed for the "modern" world, that it is overly economistic, that it neglects individual actors, and that it inappropriately uses modern analyses in ancient settings. Although there is some validity to these charges when applied to Wallerstein's original formulation, most …
Revitalization and Indigenous Resistance to Globalization and Neoliberalism
This article reviews discussions and case studies of indigenous peoples, especially American Indians (Lakota, Navajo, and Wampanoag), the Zapatista movement, Latin American examples (Mapuche, Guarani, and Miskito), the Adevasi in India, and the Maori, adding short sketches of Kurds in the Middle East, Pashtun in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and cases from Africa and southeast Asia to develop a general indigenous model, including social systems of de…
The world-systems perspective and archaeology: Forward into the past
Farmers, Hunters, and Colonists: Interaction between the Southwest and the Southern Plains
Eight contributors discuss early trade relations between Plains and Pueblo farmers, the evolution of interdependence between Plains hunter-gatherers and Pueblo farmers between 1450 and 1700, and the later comanchero trade between Hispanic New Mexicans and the Plains Comanche
Archaeology and world-systems analysis
Many archaeologists have criticized world-systems analysis (WSA) for being overly economistic, ignoring individual actors and importing modern analyses to ancient settings where they are inappropriate. Those criticisms are directed largely at Immanuel Wallerstein's original formulation that was explicitly developed to explain contemporary global inequalities within and among states. In that sense there is validity to these charges. We argue, howe…
The Futures of Indigenous Peoples: 9-11 And the Trajectory of Indigenous Survival and Resistance
This paper explores the past, present, and future resistance of indigenous peoples to capitalist expansion. The central argument is that the survival of indigenous peoples, their identities, and their cultures, constitutes strong antisystemic resistance against global capitalism and against the deepening and the broadening of modern world-systemic or globalization processes. Furthermore, we argue that recent events often touted as turning points …
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
Social Change in the Southwest, 1350-1880
Social Change in the Southwest, 1350-1880
volume traces the evolution and interaction of Native groups, Hispanic soldiers and settlers, and pioneers and the clash of national powers in the Against the backdrop of global and regional processes, Hall chronicles the way previously autonomous groups were transformed into ethnic minorities, some groups were destroyed, and others were assimilated and survived. A ground-breaking volume that merits serious consideration by all scholars who are i…
Comparing World-Systems: Concepts and Working Hypotheses
Journal Article Comparing World-Systems: Concepts and Working Hypotheses Get access Christopher Chase-Dunn, Christopher Chase-Dunn Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Thomas D. Hall Thomas D. Hall DePauw University Direct correspondence to Thomas D. Hall, Department of Sociology, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN 46135-0037 or to Christopher Chase-Dunn at Department of Sociology, John…
Core/Periphery Relations in Precapitalist Worlds
The Historical Evolution of World-Systems
This article synthesizes a new account of world-system evolution from contending cultural materialist, Marxist, and Weberian theories of very long-run social change. We explain the increasing size of world-systems, the rise of more and more hierarchical and larger empires, and the creation of a single global capitalist political economy in terms of iterations of a basic model of population growth, intensification of production, transformation of …
Puzzles in the Comparative Study of Frontiers: Problems, Some Solutions, and Methodological Implications
This paper examines ways in which world-system analysis can be employed fruitfully to explore frontier social processes. Conversely, it also examines how frontier social processes and events can be very valuable explorations of highly localized processes geographically and temporally of world-systems. The study of frontier regions can help to uncover the ways in which many world-systemic contexts shape local human agency. Conversely, the study of…
The Effects of Incorporation into World-Systems on Ethnic Processes: Lessons from the Ancient World for the Contemporary World
This article discusses how incorporation into a world-system (ancient or contemporary) can create, transform, or destroy ethnic groups. It suggests that: (1) ethnically homogeneous states have never been common; (2) ethnicity has always been fluid with respect to identity, boundaries, cultural content, and membership; (3) ethnic processes cannot be understood without careful consideration of their interstate, or world-systemic, context; (4) conte…
Ecological Degradation and the Evolution of World-Systems
This paper describes the role played by anthropogenic ecological degradation in the evolution of world-systems over the past twelve thousand years. We have developed a conceptual apparatus for comparing workd-systems in order to better understand how fundamental transformations in systemic logic occur. When properlyconceptualized and bounded, we can compare earlier, smaller regional systems with the modem global system. This enables us to compreh…
Spatial Synchrony Among and Within World-Systems: Insights From Theoretical Ecology
This paper reports on research in population ecology and suggests ways it might be useful in explaining spatial dynamics of states, groups, and world-systems. In particular it focuses on how and why populations at opposite of ends of Afroeurasia come to rise and fall simultaneously over long periods of time. We call for exploration of research in population ecology for understanding world-system evolution and suggest directions for possible futur…
World-Systems in North America: Networks, Rise and Fall and Pulsations of Trade in Stateless Systems
INTRODUCTION\nA great deal has been written about the indigenous peoples of North America before the colonization and conquest by Europeans. In this paper we utilize a theoretical approach that was originally developed to explain developmental differences among countries in the global system to try to understand what had happened in precontact North America. Why take a theory, or more precisely a perspective, originally developed to account for t…
Columbian Consequences, Volume I: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands West
Indigenous Movements and Globalization: What is Different? What is the Same
Too often indigenous movements are lumped in with [anti-]globalization, globalization protest movements, or the ‘new social movements’. While in some respects this categorization fits, in other, more important respects it does not. Indigenous peoples have been resisting globalization and globalization-like forces for centuries in the western hemisphere, and for millennia in Africa and Eurasia. While the forms of resistance have changed significan…
Columbian Consequences, Volume 3: The Spanish Borderlands in Pan-American Perspective
Historical Sociology and Native Americans: Methodological Problems
N THIS PAPER SOME METHODOLOGICAL problems in making historical comparisons among American groups are analyzed. It indicates that comparisons across wide gulfs of time must be made carefully, to contribute to understanding and theoretical development. Focusing on aboriginal social organization, the historical context and consequences of European contact, the changing nature of ethnic phenomena, and recent changes in the processes of incorporation,…
East-West Orientation of Historical Empires and Modern States
Jared Diamond (1997) hypothesized that if environment is important in limiting the spread of cultures, cultural units would also tend to extend more broadly along lines of latitude than along lines of longitude. We test this hypothesis by studying the range shapes of (a) historical empires and (b) modern states. Our analysis of the 62 largest empires in history supports this conjecture: there is a statistically significant tendency to expand more…
The World-System Perspective: A Small Sample from a Large Universe
Presentation at professional conference and/or article in professional journal written by DePauw University faculty member. Item available in Archives
Soil Fertility in Southern Africa
Journal Article SOIL FERTILITY IN SOUTHERN AFRICA Get access THOMAS D. HALL THOMAS D. HALL Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume XXXIX, Issue CLV, April 1940, Pages 160–169, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a100995 Published: 01 April 1940
World-System Theory
The term intersectionality references the critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but rather as reciprocally constructing phenomena. Despite this ...Read More
Modernization: The Humanist Response to Its Promise and Problems
The Rise of the Modern World-System: The View from the Periphery
Rejoinders
Social Change: The Advent and Maturation of Modern Society
This textbook is both a critical review of the main classical and modern theories of social change and a study of the processes of change in western societies since modernization
What We Wish That We, the Chair, and the Dean Had Known: "Reflections on "The First Year of College Teaching
Thomas D. Hall, Carolyn S. Morgan, What We Wish That We, the Chair, and the Dean Had Known: Reflections on "The First Year of College Teaching", Teaching Sociology, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Oct., 1986), pp. 291-294
Incorporation in the World-System: Toward a Critique
White Self-Esteem: The Urban School Child (Arnold M. and Caroline Rose Monograph Series). Washington, DC, American Sociological Association. Schooler, Carmi. 1984. Psychological Effects of Complex Environments During the Life Span: A Review and Theory. Intelligence 8:259-81. Schooler, Carmi, Melvin L. Kohn, Karen A. Miller, and Joanne Miller. 1983. Housework as Work. Chapter 10 in and Personality: An Inquiry Into the Impact of Social Stratificati…
Powers and Liberties: The Causes and Consequences of the Rise of the West. John A. Hall
Native Americans and Incorporation: Patterns and Problems
I. INTRODUCTION\nContact between Native Americans and Europeans first began in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Since then, societies dominated by transplanted Europeans have had complex effects on Native American groups, sometimes trying to displace or annihilate them, more often trying to include them in one way or another (with varying results), into their respective states. These processes and their results have been highly v…
Where the Dove Calls: The Political Ecology of a Peasant Corporate Community in Northwestern Mexico
Thomas Sheridan's study of the municipio of Cucurpe, Sonora, offers new insight into the ability of peasants to respond to ecological and political change. In order to survive as small rancher-farmers, the Cucurpenos battle aridity and one another in a society characterized by sharp economic inequality and long-standing conflict over the distribution of land and water. Sheridan has written an ethnography of resource control, one that weds the app…
Toward a Political Economy of Development: A Rational Choice Perspective
Historical Sociology and Native Americans: Methodological Problems
N THIS PAPER SOME METHODOLOGICAL problems in making historical comparisons among American groups are analyzed. It indicates that comparisons across wide gulfs of time must be made carefully, to contribute to understanding and theoretical development. Focusing on aboriginal social organization, the historical context and consequences of European contact, the changing nature of ethnic phenomena, and recent changes in the processes of incorporation,…
Social Change in the Southwest, 1350-1880
volume traces the evolution and interaction of Native groups, Hispanic soldiers and settlers, and pioneers and the clash of national powers in the Against the backdrop of global and regional processes, Hall chronicles the way previously autonomous groups were transformed into ethnic minorities, some groups were destroyed, and others were assimilated and survived. A ground-breaking volume that merits serious consideration by all scholars who are i…
Geographic Perspectives in History
Visions of the American West
Social Change in the Southwest, 1350-1880
Social Change in the Southwest, 1350-1880
Journal Article Social Change in the Southwest, 1350–1880. By Thomas D. Hall. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1989. xvi + 287 pp. $35.00.) Get access Gilberto M. Hinojosa Gilberto M. Hinojosa University of Texas San Antonio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Pages 1245–1246, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936614 Published: 01 March 1990
When Cultures Meet: Remembering San Gabriel Del Yunge Oweenge
Roots of Resistance: Champagne's American Indian Societies
American Indian Societies: Strategies and Conditions of Political and Cultural Survival. By Duane Champagne. Cambridge, MA: Cultural Survival (Volume 32 in Cultural Survival’s Report Series), 1989. $19.95 Cloth. $10.00 Paper.\nAmerican Indian Societies is a significantly enlarged version of Cultural Survival Report 21 issued in December 1985 under the current subtitle. I note this because the casual scanner of titles might mistake it for a simple…
Social Change in the Southwest, 1350-1880
Class and Community in Frontier Colorado
Class Structure and Conflict in Frontier ColoradoIn 1876, Colorado was admitted to the union.Then, as the nation recovered from the economic depression of 1873 and the Colorado silver mines attracted eastern capital investment, it seemed that economic prosperity would be achieved.Prosperity did not bring domestic tranquility, however.In northern Colorado, first Grangers and then Greenbackers were organizing in opposition to monopoly capital, and …
Women Workers and Global Restructuring
Columbian Consequences, Volume I: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands West
Social Change in the Southwest, 1350-1880
Ramón A. Gutiérrez; Social Change in the Southwest, 1350–1880, Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 22, Issue 3, 1 August 1991, Pages 344–345, https://doi
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