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Tables of Contents for Unthinking Social Science
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the Second Edition
vii
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction: Why Unthink?
1
4
I The Social Sciences: From Genesis to Bifurcation
5
34
The French Revolution as a World-Historical Event
7
16
Crises: The World-Economy, the Movements, and the Ideologies
23
16
II The Concept of Development
39
86
The Industrial Revolution: Cui Bono?
41
10
Economic Theories and Historical Disparities of Development
51
13
Societal Development, or Development of the World-System?
64
16
The Myrdal Legacy: Racism and Underdevelopment as Dilemmas
80
24
Development: Lodestar or Illusion?
104
21
III Concepts of Time and Space
125
24
A Comment on Epistemology: What is Africa?
127
3
Does India Exist?
130
5
The Inventions of TimeSpace Realities: Towards an Understanding of our Historical Systems
135
14
IV Revisiting Marx
149
36
Marx and Underdevelopment
151
19
Marxisms as Utopias: Evolving Ideologies
170
15
V Revisiting Braudel
185
42
Fernand Braudel, Historian, ``homme de la conjoncture''
187
15
Capitalism: The Enemy of the Market?
202
5
Braudel on Capitalism, or Everything Upside Down
207
11
Beyond Annales?
218
9
VI World-Systems Analysis as Unthinking
227
46
Historical Systems as Complex Systems
229
8
Call for a Debate about the Paradigm
237
20
A Theory of Economic History in Place of Economic Theory?
257
9
World-Systems Analysis: The Second Phase
266
7
References
273
7
Index
280