The Capitalist World-Economy
Immanuel Wallerstein
(Author)
Jacques Revel
(Editor)
Description
In The Capitalist World-Economy Immanuel Wallerstein focuses on the two central conflicts of capitalism, bourgeois versus proletarian and core versus periphery, in an attempt to describe both the cyclical rhythms and the secular transformations of capitalism, conceived as a singular world-system. The essays include discussions of the relationship of class and ethnonational consciousness, clarification of the meaning of transition from feudalism to capitalism, the utility of the concept of the semi peripheral state, and the relationship of socialist states to the capitalist world-economy. This book is the first in a three volume collection of Wallerstein's essays. The Politics of World-Economy (1984) elaborates on the role of states, the antisystemic movements and the civilizational project. Geopolitics and Geoculture (1991) analyses both the events leading up to the collapse of the Iron Curtain, and the subsequent process of perestroika in the light of Wallerstein's own interpretations, and the ways in which the renewed concern with culture is a product of the changing world-system.
Product Details
Price
$32.99
$30.68
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publish Date
March 30, 1979
Pages
320
Dimensions
6.06 X 9.16 X 0.77 inches | 1.1 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780521293587
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Jacques Revel is a professor of history at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is the author (with Arlette Farge) of Vanishing Children of Paris. Lynn Hunt is the Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of The Family Romance in the French Revolution and editor of The New Cultural History and the Invention of Pornography.
Reviews
'The Capitalist World-Economy deserves to be read carefully, critically, and intelligently.' Journal of Economic Issues
'The thesis is argued vigorously and with considerable sophistication and will help sharpen perceptions of an important dimension of the structure of world economic relationships which informs much of the demand for a new international economic order.' International Affairs
'The thesis is argued vigorously and with considerable sophistication and will help sharpen perceptions of an important dimension of the structure of world economic relationships which informs much of the demand for a new international economic order.' International Affairs