World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction 9780822399018, 0822399016, 0-8223-3431-3, 0-8223-3442-9
In World-Systems Analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive appr
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Table of contents :
Content: Acknowledgments --
To Start: Understanding the World in Which We Live --
1. Historical Origins of World-Systems Analysis: From Social Science Disciplines to Historical Social Sciences --
2. The Modern World-System as a Capitalist World-Economy: Production, Surplus-Value, and Polarization --
3. The Rise of the States-System: Sovereign Nation-States, Colonies, and the Interstate System --
4. The Creation of a Geoculture: Ideologies, Social Movements, Social Science --
5. The Modern World-System in Crisis: Bifurcation, Chaos, and Choices --
Glossary --
Bibliographical Guide --
Index.
