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  • THE GLOBAL LEFT
    IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN
    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 antis...

    $979.00

  • ALTERNATIVES
    IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN
    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 at...

    $1,399.00

  • OVERCOMING THE TWO CULTURES
    RICHARD E LEE JR / IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN
    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 "scien...

    $1,559.00

  • UNCERTAIN WORLDS
    IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN / CARLOS AGUIRRE ROJAS / CHARLES C. LEMERT
    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...

    $1,039.00

  • MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM IN THE LONGUE DUREE
    IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN
    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 the relationship between scholarship and the rest of the world. The book is publis...

    $1,659.00

  • OVERCOMING GLOBAL INEQUALITIES
    IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN / CHRISTOPHER CHASE-DUNN / CHRISTIAN SUTER
    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...

    $1,039.00

  • THE WORLD IS OUT OF JOINT
    IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN
    The dominant view in social science has been that the modern world shows a pattern of linear development in which all positive social trends rise (albeit at an uncertain speed) toward a relatively homogenized world. In the post-1945 period, some analysts contested this linear model, arguing that the modern world was rather one of escalating polarization. Their view was strength...

    $1,099.00

  • THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN POWER
    IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN
    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 Unite...

    $249.00