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The capitalist world economy

Wallerstein Immanuel

The capitalist world economy - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1979 - 305p xiii

Contents
Some reflections on history, the social sciences, and politics
Acknowledgments
Part I. The Inequalities of Core and Periphery: 1. The rise and future demise of the world capitalist system: concepts for comparative analysis
2. Three paths of national development in sixteenth-century Europe
3. The present state of the debate on world inequality
4. Dependence in an interdependent world: the limited possibilities of transformation within the capitalist world-economy
5. Semiperipheral countries and the contemporary world crisis
6. The rural economy in modern world society
7. Modernization: requiescat in pace
8. From feudalism to capitalism: transition or transitions?
9. A world-system perspective on the social sciences
Part II. The Inequalities of Class, Race and Ethnicity: 10. Social conflict in post-independence Black Africa: the concepts of race and status group reconsidered
11. The two modes of ethnic consciousness: Soviet Central Asia in transition
12. Class and class conflict in contemporary Africa
13. American slavery and the capitalist world-economy
14. Class formation in the capitalist world-economy
Part III. Political Strategies: 15. Old problems and new syntheses: the relation of revolutionary ideas and practices
16. Fanon and the revolutionary class
17. An historical perspective on the emergence of the new international order: economic, political, cultural aspects
Concluding essay
18. Class conflict in the capitalist world-economy
Index.

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