Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
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A panoramic reinterpretation of global history, this title traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue to the 2011 Edition 1. Industry and bourgeoisie 2. Struggle in the core—phase iii: 1763–1815 3. The incorporation of vast new zones into the world-economy: 1750–1850 4. The settler decolonization of the Americas: 1763–1833 Bibliography Index
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"A work in the grand historical tradition...bold in its thrust....many readers will find this a contentious and unsettling work. But it is contentious and unsettling in ways healthful for the normal practice of economic history."
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780520267596
Publisert
2011-06-10
Utgiver
Vendor
University of California Press
Vekt
499 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
28 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Biographical note

Immanuel Wallerstein is Senior Research Scholar at Yale University and the former President of the International Sociological Association. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction and European Universalism: The Rhetoric of Power.