Essential Wallerstein
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Overview
Key essays from the "prolific, provocative, 'big-picture theorist'" (Booklist) andoriginator of world-systems analysis. Immanuel Wallerstein is one of the most innovative social scientists of his generation. Past president of the International Sociological Association, he has had a major influence on the development of social thought throughout the world, and his books are translated into every major language. The Essential Wallerstein brings together for the first time the full range of his scholarship. This comprehensive collection of essays offers a unique overview of this seminal thinker's work, showing the development of his thought: from his groundbreaking research on contemporary African politics and social change, to his study of the modern world-system, to his current essays on the new structures of knowledge emerging from the crisis of the capitalist world-economy. His singular focus on the way in which change in one part of the globe affects the whole is all the more relevant as the world grows increasingly interdependent. The Essential Wallersteinis an ideal introduction to the extensive body of work from a thinker who helped introduce globally sensitive thinking to the field of social science. This is the first in a series of Readers bringing together the key works of major figures in the social sciences.Synopsis
Wallerstein provides a general introduction and then a brief introduction to each of 28 articles selected for reprinting from publications such as Social Theory Today, American Journal of Sociology, and International Sociology, among other journals and booksspanning the decades since 1960. Arrangement is in sections on the route to world-systems analysis; world-systems analysis and social science; institutions of the capitalist world-economy; cleavages in the world-systemrace, nation, class, ethnicity, gender; and resistance, hope, and deception. The volume is not indexed. Distributed by W.W. Norton. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR