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  • 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

    $17.29 USD

  • Does Capitalism Have a Future?

    In Does Capitalism Have a Future?, a global quintet of distinguished scholars cut their way through to the question of whether our capitalist system can survive in the medium run. Despite the current gloom, conventional wisdom still assumes that there is no real alternative to capitalism. The authors argue that this generalization is a mistaken outgrowth of the optimistic nineteenth-century claim ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Modern World-System I

    Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century

    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

    $24.69 USD

  • The Modern World-System III

    The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730s–1840s

    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

    $24.69 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

    $80.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

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  • 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

  • University in Turmoil

    The Politics of Change

    In the spring of 1968, Columbia University erupted. Students occupied buildings, confronted the university’s administration, and demanded institutional change in a watershed moment for American activism. As both witness and participant, renowned sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein captured this pivotal uprising with unparalleled clarity and insight.This essential reissue of University in Turmoil ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • 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

    $10.49 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

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  • The Global Left

    Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

    In The Global Left: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Immanuel Wallerstein takes stock of the practices of the left, historically in the time of its great ideals and today in the midst of the global crisis of capitalism. He underlines the urgency of seeing the emergence of a global and united left that can pave the way out of the centuries-old domination of capital, considering antisystemic movements, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD