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Historical Capitalism With Capitalist Civilization

Historical Capitalism With Capitalist Civilization

Name: Historical Capitalism With Capitalist Civilization
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Immanuel Wallerstein
ISBN: 9781859841051

Immanuel Wallerstein

17/01/1996
Verso Books

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Couverture de Historical Capitalism With Capitalist Civilization par Immanuel Wallerstein

Résumé

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. Particular attention is focused on the emergence and development of a unified world market, and the concomitant international division of labour. Wallerstein argues forcefully, against the current of much contemporary opinion, that capitalism has brought about an actual, not merely relative, immiseration in the countries of the Third World. The economic and social problems of underdeveloped countries will remain unresolved as long as they remain located within a framework of world capitalism. Historical Capitalism, with its continuation Capitalist Civilization, is a welcome and stimulating synthesis of one of the most challenging and influential assessments of capitalism as a world-historic mode of production.