Product Description: The first volume in a new series from SAGE presenting work in the world-systems perspective, a school of social science thought that views the world economy as a single system across time and space. This first volume is a sourcebook reader of the most fundamental work in the field, drawn from Review, the journal most concerned with the work of this perspective, and from volumes in SAGE's Political Economy of the World-System Annuals...read more

Analyzes the workings of the system of capitalism and examines the impact of capitalism on economic, social and political conditions

Product Description: In these essays, written (with one exception) between 1978 and 1982, Immanuel Wallerstein elaborates on the political and theoretical implications of the world-systems perspective outlined in his celebrated books The Modern World-System and The Capitalist World-Economy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of essays seeks to view the contemporary African Scene in the light of Africa's role in the capitalist world-economy: its incorporation into it, its peripheralization, its antisystemic movements. It views race and class household and nation not as primordial tradition but as continuous construction and reconstruction of the world systems...read more

Forty years after the defeat of Nazism, and twenty years after the great wave of decolonization, how is it that racism remains a growing phenomenon? What are the special characteristics of contemporary racism? How can it be related to class divisions and to the contradictions of the nation-state? And how far, in turn, does racism today compel us to rethink the relationship between class struggles and nationalism?This book attempts to answer these fundamental questions through a remarkable dialogue between the French philosopher Etienne Balibar and the American historian and sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein. Each brings to the debate the fruits of over two decades of analytical work, greatly inspired, respectively, by Louis Althusser and Fernand Braudel.Both authors challenge the commonly held notion of racism as a continuation of, or throwback to, the xenophobias of past societies and communities. They analyse it instead as a social relation indissolubly tied to present social structures—the nation-state, the division of labour, and the division between core and periphery—which are themselves constantly being reconstructed. Despite their productive disagreements, Balibar and Wallerstein both emphasize the modernity of racism and the need to understand its relation to contemporary capitalism and class struggle. Above all, their dialogue reveals the forms of present and future social conflict, in a world where the crisis of the nation-state is accompanied by an alarming rise of nationalism and chauvinism.

Product Description: This book presents new methods for the analysis of time series and the identification of long waves. In Part One it is shown that new time series analyses confirm the existence of Kondratieff long waves in economic growth for the 19th and 20th centuries...read more

Stating that the loss of liberalism has impeded the world's ability to pursue mutally beneficial modernity, a cautionary study explores the price of this loss and predicts how it will affect the next few decades. Original.

Experts from various fields and many countries offer their views through this selection of articles constituting an international debate on inequality and development.

Operators of commercial vessels have known and favored diesel engines for years. Now more and more pleasureboaters are choosing diesel power. Despite their apparent complexity, diesels are elegantly simple machines that can be given an almost-indefinite life span by painless preventive maintenance techniques and proper operation. In many cases, these methods differ sharply from ingrained automotive practices. In fact, some of these habits, ported over from the family passenger car, can be the death of a good marine diesel. In Keep Your Marine Diesel Running, Richard Thiel has written a survival guide for the owners of all types and sizes of diesel-powered watercraft. Using the premise that the reader knows (and cares) little about engines of any kind--as long as they provide reliable service--Thiel gives a brief and painless overview of how diesel engines work, and outlines an easily followed program to dramatically extend the lives of marine engines. And if you should need repairs, Thiel tells you how to find and deal with a mechanic, how to read a bill, and how to tell if you're being taken care of or being taken for a ride. Written specifically for the non-mechanic, Keep Your Marine Diesel Running is the complete survival guide for owners of diesel-powered boats of all types and sizes. Here is: How a Marine Diesel Works, including turbochargers, cooling, fuel, lubrication, and exhaust systems. How to Operate a Marine Diesel Engine to provide the longest, most troublefree life. Includes daily and periodic logs and checklists, and details proper operation from start-up to shutdown. How to Care for Your Diesel's oil, fuel, and cooling systems; how to do it yourself; how to choose and deal with a mechanic; how to do your own basic troubleshooting; and what tools and spare parts you should carry. This is the book that should come with every marine diesel ever sold--but didn't. A marine diesel is a big investment. Follow the simple program presented here and you'll be able to keep it running troublefree for years to come. "Simple, easy-to-use, and easy-to-understand advice . . . "--SAIL "A good place to start your education."--American Sailor "If you own a diesel, you owe it to yourself to buy Keep Your Marine Diesel Running."--The Ensign

Product Description: Libro que repasa la trayectoria intelectual de Immanuel Wallerstein y que, partiendo de su análisis del sistema-mundo moderno y de la economía-mundo capitalista, ofrece una rica y variada perspectiva sobre el funcionamiento de los procesos de explotación económica, estructuración político-estatal y fracturación en torno a las variables de la raza, la nación, la clase, la etnicidad y el género...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

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 published to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Fernand Braudel Center. Contributors Samir Amin, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Bart Tromp,. Claudia von Werlhof, Giovanni Arrighi, Pablo Gonzalez-Casanova, Marcel van der Linden, Randall Collins, Mahm ood Mamdani, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Janet Abu-Lughod, Maurice Aymard, and Immanuel Wallerstein.

Product Description: Las incertidumbres del saber es la continuación del trabajo que Immanuel Wallerstein realiza desde hace más de una década con el propósito de explicar la crisis del conocimiento en el pensamiento intelectual de hoy. El autor sostiene que las divisiones disciplinares de la academia nos han atrapado en un paradigma que adopt...read more

Product Description: This volume is part of the "Worldviews, Science and Us" series of proceedings and contains several contributions on the subject of worlds, cultures and society. It represents the proceedings of several workshops and discussion panels organized by the Leo Apostel Center for Interdisciplinary studies within the framework of the "Research on the Construction of Integrating Worldviews" research community set up by the Flanders Fund for Scientific Research, over the period of time between 2005 to 2010...read more