World-systems Analysis: An IntroductionIn World-Systems Analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach to understanding the history and development of the modern world that he pioneered thirty years ago. |
Contents
Acknowledgments | vii |
Understanding the World in Which We Live | ix |
Historical Origins of WorldSystems Analysis From Social Science Disciplines to Historical Social Sciences | 1 |
The Modern WorldSystem as a Capitalist WorldEconomy Production Surplus Value and Polarization | 23 |
The Rise of the StatesSystem Sovereign NationStates Colonies and the Interstate System | 42 |
The Creation of a Geoculture Ideologies Social Movements Social Science | 60 |
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