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. |
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Sovereign NationStates Colonies | 42 |
Ideologies Social Movements | 60 |
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accumulation of capital Andre Gunder Frank antisystemic movements arena argued basic boundaries Braudel C. P. Snow called capitalist system capitalist world-economy central concept conservatism conservatives core core-periphery costs of production countries course create critique cultural debate defined disciplines division of labor dominant economic economists employer epistemology ethnic exist firms French Revolution geoculture Giovanni Arrighi hegemonic power hegemony historians historical system household ideology idiographic Immanuel Wallerstein income insisted institutions internal interstate system kind Kondratieff least liberals located major mean meritocracy modern world modern world-system nineteenth century nomothetic norms oligopoly organizations peripheral products persons phenomena political pressure production processes profit proletarian quasi-monopolies radical Raúl Prebisch remuneration revolution of 1968 role scholars sellers semiperipheral social sciences social scientists sovereign sovereignty status-groups or identities strong structures of knowledge struggle surplus-value taxes term tion twentieth century unequal exchange United workers world revolution world-empire world-systems analysis zones