The Long Twentieth Century
By Giovanni Arrighi.
Description
Winner of the American Sociological Association PEWS Award (1995) for Distinguished ScholarshipThe Long Twentieth Century traces the epochal shifts in the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Giovanni Arrighi masterfully synthesizes social theory, comparative history and historical narrative in this account of the structures and agencies which have shaped the course of world history over the millennium.Borrowing from Braudel, Arrighi argues that the history of capitalism has unfolded as a succession of “long centuries”—ages ...
ISBN(s)
1859840159, 9781859840153
