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The World is Out of Joint: World-Historical Interpretations of Continuing Polarizations book cover

1st Edition

The World is Out of Joint World-Historical Interpretations of Continuing Polarizations

Edited By Immanuel Wallerstein Copyright 2015
208 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge
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The dominant view in social science has been that the modern world shows a pattern of linear development in which all positive social trends rise (albeit at an uncertain speed) toward a relatively homogenized world. In the post-1945 period, some analysts contested this linear model, arguing that the modern world was rather one of escalating polarization. Their view was strengthened by the... Read more

01 - Introduction
by Immanuel Wallerstein

02 - Ecology and the Geography of Capitalism
by Ana Esther Ceceña

03 - Economic Inequality, Stratification, and Mobility
by Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Timothy Patrick Moran

04 - Cities
by Peter J. Taylor, Michael Hoyler, and Dennis Smith

05 - Peasantries
by Eric Vanhaute, Hanne Cottyn, and Yang Wang

06 - Large Enterprises and Corporate Power
by Jorge Fonseca

07 - Intellectual Property
by Ravi Sundaram

08 - The States
by Atilio A. Borom and Paloma Nottebohm

09 - Citizenship
by Oleksandr Fisun and Volodymyr Golovko

10 - Patriarchal Systems and Women's Spaces
by Linda Christiansen-Ruffman

11 - Deviance
by Ari Sitas, Sumangala Damodaran, Weibke Keim & Nicos Trimikliniotis

12 – Conclusion
by Immanuel Wallerstein

Biography

Immanuel Wallerstein has been a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University since 2000, having taught previously at many distinguished universities. Among his many books, he is the author of the magisterial 4-volume work, The Modern World System. Volume IV is recently published.

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