Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System , is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. This new volume encompasses the nineteenth century from the revolutionary era of 1789 to the First World War. In this crucial period, three great ideologies - conservatism, liberalism, and radicalism - emerged in response to the worldwide cultural transformation that came about when the French Revolution legitimized the sovereignty of the people. Wallerstein tells how capitalists, and Great Britain, brought relative order to the world and how liberalism triumphed as the dominant ideology.
Immanuel Wallerstein is Senior Research Scholar at Yale University and the former President of the International Sociological Association. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction and European Universalism: The Rhetoric of Power.
Title: The Modern World-System IV: Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789-1914
Author: Wallerstein, Immanuel
ISBN: 9780520267619
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Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Date: 2011-06-14
Number of Pages: 396
Weight: 0.5445 kg
Wallerstein offers a timely topic that answers our dilemmas about modern society and the historical sense of the Western civilization. Theory & Society In this new volume [Wallerstein] answers critics who complain that he pays little attention to culture... Definitely worth reading. Choice A fresh look at global history ... tracing the evolution of contemporary political ideologies from the 18th to the 20th centuries. -- Benjamin W. Gittelson Columbia College Today Provocative... Radically original. -- Jennifer Pitts New Left Review