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

Product Description: Book by De Braganca, Aquino, Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice

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.

Antisystemic Movements is an eloquent and concise history of popular resistance and class struggle by the leading exponents of the “world-systems” perspective on capitalism. Basing itself on an analysis of resistance movements since the emergence of capitalism, it shows that while some early forms were successful in their own terms, ultimately they did not impede the consolidation of the modern capitalist world-system.The authors argue that although capitalism generated resistance right from the beginning as it displaced populations, despoiled resources and established global exploitation, until about 1848 the capitalist world-system could crush or outflank an opposition which was dispersed, localized and lacking in organization and continuity. From the mid-nineteenth century down to recent times, more adequately organized social and national movements set some limits on capital accumulation, but generally remained confined in their effectiveness to the terrain of the nation-state. Indeed, paradoxically, the successes of the “old” social movements helped to boost the power and legitimacy of states while failing to remove the sources of class conflict or to grapple with the consequences of interstate competition.Taking the year 1968 as a symbolic turning-point, the authors argue that “new” antisystemic movements have arisen which challenge the logic of the capitalist world-system more centrally than ever before. These new movements have a different ethnic and gender composition and different ways of organizing, while their key inspirations show an increasing ability to cross national boundaries. The authors suggest that the new assertiveness of the south, the development of class struggle in the east and the emergence of rainbow coalitions in different world zones might hold out the promise of a future socialist world-system.

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

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Product Description: The years following 1945 witnessed a massive change in American intellectual thought and in the life of American universities. The effort to mobilize intellectual talent during the war established new links between the government and the academy...read more

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Product Description: This book examines the intimate link between the micro-structures of households and the structures of the world-economy at a global level. It seeks to explain differences in wage levels for work of comparable productivity by examining the different structures of households as "income-pooling units...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Immanuel Wallerstein, fundador de la perspectiva critica del """"analisis del sistema-mundo"""", ha devenido uno de los intelectuales mas relevantes de la actualidad.

Product Description: Immanuel Wallerstein, fundador de la perspectiva critica del """"analisis del sistema-mundo"""", ha devenido uno de los intelectuales mas relevantes de la actualidad.

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

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A magic ring transports accountant Sara Dayny from her suburban Minnesota home to Regency England, where she finds herself among a band of gypsies and where she falls for Toma the Magnificent, a handsome gypsy man (view table of contents)

Product Description: This is the third volume of Immanuel Wallerstein's essays to appear in Studies in Modern Capitalism, following the immensely successful collections The Politics of the World Economy and The Capitalist World Economy. Written between 1982 and 1989, the essays in this volume offer Wallerstein's perspective on the events of the period, and the background to his interpretation of the momentous events of 1989...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this short, highly readable book Immanuel Wallerstein provides a condensation of the central ideas of his monumental study of capitalism as an integrated, historical entity: The Modern World-System. In developing an anatomy of capitalism over the past five centuries, Wallerstein traces those elements that have constantly changed and evolved, while giving equal attention to features of historical capitalism that have necessarily remained constant...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In most large scale analyses of the world-economy, the basic building blocks of economies -- households -- are forgotten. This volume is a reminder to researchers of the crucial link between individual household behaviour, the state, and the world-economy...read more