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  • Uncertainties of Time

    The Past and Future of TimeSpace

    Series series A New Order of Social Things
    Examining the concept of TimeSpace in the work of Immanuel Wallerstein and its crucial role within world-systems analysis, Uncertainties of Time brings together important but previously hard-to-access material from Wallerstein’s writings.TimeSpace is a concept developed from his earliest days in the 1970s until well into the twenty-first century, drawing from the historian Fernand Braudel and the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Historical Capitalism

    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 over the centuries, and what has remained constant, he outlines its chief characteristics. In particular, he ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Decline of American Power

    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, and a nation drifting dangerously amidst a global chaos it cannot control.The United States in decline? Its ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • World-Systems Analysis

    An Introduction

    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    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 widely utilized methodology within the historical social sciences and a common point of reference in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Modern World-System IV

    Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789–1914

    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. This new volume encompasses the nineteenth century from the revolutionary era of 1789 to ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Uncertain Worlds

    World-systems Analysis in Changing Times

    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 interview with Wallerstein by Carlos Rojas, a conversation between Wallerstein and Lemert about the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Overcoming the Two Cultures

    Science vs. the Humanities in the Modern World-system

    This book tells the story of how the very idea of two cultures-the so-called divorce between science and the humanities-was a creation of the modern world-system. The contributors, working from a common research framework, trace the divorce of "facts" and "values" as part of the transition from feudalism to capitalism. This led to a polarization between universalist "science" and the particularist ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • The Modern World-System II

    Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600–1750

    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. ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Alternatives

    The United States Confronts the World

    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 dovetail with current Bush administration policies, which he describes as an attempt to reverse the ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The World-System and Africa

    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 the impact of this worldwide structural crisis on Africa. Next, he turns to identity politics, a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Overcoming Global Inequalities

    Series series Political Economy of the World-System Annuals
    This book examines the changing nature of global inequalities and efforts that are being made to move toward a more egalitarian world society. The contributors are world historical sociologists and geographers who place the contemporary issues of unequal power, wealth and income in a global historical perspective. The geographers examine the roles of geopolitics and patterns of warfare in the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Rasse, Klasse, Nation

    Ambivalente Identitäten

    Was ist die Spezifik des gegenwärtigen Rassismus? Wie lässt sie sich mit dem Kapitalismus und den Widersprüchen des Nationalstaats verknüpfen? Wann artikulieren sich Konflikte zwischen den Klassen rassistisch? Und sind hier noch andere als ökonomische Strukturen im Spiel? Diesen Fragen gehen Étienne Balibar und Immanuel Wallerstein in diesem Grundlagenwerk der Rassismustheorie nach. Sie belegen, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus