Rethinking the Nineteenth Century

Francisc Ramirez

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Political Economy of the World-System
• Contemporary studies on social structure and the world political economy tend to be concerned primarily with present conditions and what these promise... Lees meer

Questioning Geopolitics

Georgi M. Derluguian, Scott L. Greer

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Political Economy of the World-System
• This volume takes an enlightened step back from the ongoing discussion of globalization. The authors reject the notion that globalization is an analyt... Lees meer

Latin America in the World-Economy

Roberto Korzeniewicz, William C. Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Political Economy of the World-System
• Latin America is in the midst of dramatic transformations. Stabilization and structural adjustment programs are dismantling state regulation of the ec... Lees meer

Ecology and the World-System

Walter L. Goldfrank, David Goodman, Andrew Szasz

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Political Economy of the World-System
• Integrating environmental and world-systems analyses in chapters ranging from the ancient to the contemporary, from the global to the local, from West... Lees meer

Food and Agrarian Orders in the World-Economy

Philip Mcmichael

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Political Economy of the World-System
• . . . emergence of a world-economy depends on the reorganization of agriculture and food systems . . . Lees meer

The Modern/Colonial/Capitalist World-System in the Twentieth Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Political Economy of the World-System
• An important building block for further advancing world-system theory, this book considers the theory from the perspectives of global processes and an... Lees meer

War in the World-System

Robert Schaeffer

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Political Economy of the World-System | nr. 93
• This interdisciplinary study provides a broad conceptual and factual base for a deeper understanding of the social, political, and economic forces tha... Lees meer

A New World Order?

Jozsef Borocz, David Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Political Economy of the World-System
• The closing years of the 20th century will be remembered as a time of tumultuous change. The various essays are attempts to understand the changes and... Lees meer

Revolution in the World-System

Terry Boswell

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Political Economy of the World-System | nr. 94
• Seventy-one of the 168 member nations of the UN were rocked by insurgency during the past decade. Among the most overwhelming of the conflicts were fu... Lees meer

Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Political Economy of the World-System
• The current restructuring of the world-economy under global capitalism has further integrated international trade and production. It thus has brought ... Lees meer

Racism, Sexism, and the World-System

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Political Economy of the World-System | nr. 84
• This is a long overdue addition to a series of books and edited collections spawned initially from Immanuel Wallerstein's The Modern World-System . Th... Lees meer

Cities in the World-System

Resat Kasaba

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Political Economy of the World-System | nr. 126
• The contributors to this collection question the boundaries and limitations that are imposed on the study of cities by urban sociology. They do not di... Lees meer

Pacific-Asia and the Future of the World-System

Ravi Palat

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Political Economy of the World-System
• By the late 1970s, scholars and journalists were quick to proclaim the dawn of a new era--the Age of the Pacific. The 1980s--with the economic growth ... Lees meer