World-systems analysis

In World-Systems Analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered thirty years ago to understanding the history and development of the modern world. Since Wallerstein first developed world-systems analysis, it has become a...

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Glavni autor: Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice (-)
Vrsta građe: Knjiga
Jezik: eng
Impresum: Durham, NC ; London, UK : Duke University Press, 2004.
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  • 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