"The Modern World System", Immanuel Wallerstein's influential multivolume reinterpretation of global history, traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth century to the twentieth.

A succinct introduction to the history of capitalism by the renowned political theorist.

So his gift to us is not just a new understanding of how the world works but a new way of apprehending it. A brilliant work on both scores.

In this provocative collection, the visionary originator of world-systems analysis and the most innovative social scientist of his generation turns a practiced analytical eye to the turbulent beginnings of the 21st century.

This book is nothing short of a state-of-the-world address, delivered by a scholar uniquely suited to the task.

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Unthinking Social Science applies the ideas thus elaborated to a variety of theoretical areas and historical problems.

Written between 1982 and 1989, this collection contains the author's perspective on the events of this period.