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In this short, highly readable book, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a condensation of the central ideas of The Modern World-System, his monumental study of capitalism as an integrated, historical entity. In developing an anatomy of capitalism over the past five centuries, Wallerstein provides one of the most coherent and succinct introductions tot he genesis of a global system of exploitation. Particular attention is focused on the emergence and development of a unified world market, and the concomitant international division of labor. Wallerstein argues forcefully, against the grain of much current 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 is a welcome and stimulating synthesis of one of the most influential assessments of capitalism as a world-historic mode of production.
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IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN is director of the Fernand Braudel Center at the State University of New York. His many books include a three-volume study, The Modern World-System, and, cowritten with Etienne Balibar, Race, Nation, Class.
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I really liked this small book which is an insightful and very readable synopsis of the theoretical underpinnings, the workings and fallacies of modern day capitalism. It is fairly balanced yet faintly Marxist in the sense that it supposes the bourgeoisie + proletariat can seize the moment and create a new and improved world order. I fear both b + P are drunk on banality. If Wallerstein has his way, some day will birth an egalitarian economic system. For that day to come, we must act more and talk less.
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This is a great explanation of the history of our economic structure, and why it leaves many groups of people marginalized, discriminated, and without opportunities to advance in capitalism. Although it was not easily readable in some parts, I was very satisfied with Wallerstein's writing and with Primadonnareads.
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