Immanuel Wallerstein: 20 books
Uncertain Worlds
World-systems Analysis in Changing Times
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Uncertain Worlds is the definitive presentation of the evolution of world-systems analysis from the point of view of its founder, Immanuel Wallerstein. Few theorists have offered a more systematic theory of what has become known as 'globalisation' than Wallerstein. The book includes a one-of-kind...
by Immanuel Wallerstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
In* The World-System and Africa*, Immanuel Wallerstein examines three important, interconnected themes that link Africa and the capitalist world-system of the last 500 years. While drawing attention to the structural crisis of the modern world-system, Wallerstein uses the first set of essays to explore...
World-Systems Analysis
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2004
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...
by Immanuel Wallerstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
The internationally renowned theorist contends that the sun is setting on the American empire in this “lucid, informed, and insightful” account (The New York Times).
The United States currently finds itself [a] superpower that lacks true power, a world leader nobody follows and few respect,...
Alternatives
The United States Confronts the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Immanuel Wallerstein draws on a lifetime of study of long-term historical change to shed light in his newest book on the consequences of the recent, significant turn in U.S. foreign and economic policies. Alternatives shows how the U.S. has been in decline since the 1970s and how these longer trends...
The Modern World-System IV
Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789–1914
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth...
The Modern World-System II
Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600–1750
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
The Modern World-System I
Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
The Modern World-System III
The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730s–1840s
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
by Immanuel Wallerstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
In this book prominent scholars from around the world debate two major themes: the past and future of the capitalist world-economy, and the ways in which a capitalist economy shapes Western research, the academy, and broader knowledge structures. Putting the two themes together, they also analyze...
Comprendre le monde
Introduction à l'analyse des systèmes-monde
Language: French
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Multi-disciplines (histoire, sciences politiques, économie, sociologie, anthropologie), cette approche globale sur longue période, héritée de Braudel, est désormais incontournable pour penser la mondialisation.
Pour la majorité des médias et des experts, la mondialisation et le terrorisme...
by La République des Lettres, Immanuel Wallerstein
Language: French
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Immanuel Wallerstein : "Lorsque j'étais à l'Université vers la fin des années quarante, on nous apprenait les vertus et les réalités de la modernité, du fait d'être moderne. Aujourd'hui, un demi-siècle plus tard, on nous enseigne les vertus et les réalités de la postmodernité. Que diable...
by Immanuel Wallerstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
A succinct introduction to the history of capitalism by the renowned political theorist.
In this short, highly readable book, the master of world-systems theory provides a succinct anatomy of capitalism over the past five hundred years. Considering the way capitalism has changed and evolved...
by Immanuel WALLERSTEIN, Randall COLLINS, Michael MANN
Language: French
Release Date: May 4, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: May 4, 2016
On dit parfois qu'il est plus facile d'imaginer la fin du monde que celle du capitalisme. C'est à un véritable exercice d'imagination sur l'avenir très problématique du capitalisme que nous convient cinq des chercheurs les plus éminents de la sociologie historique, réunis autour d'I. Wallerstein,...
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