Books by Immanuel Wallerstein

Argues that the disciplinary divisions of academia have trapped us in a paradigm that assumes knowledge is a certainty and that it can help us explain the social world. This work offers a fresh conception of the social sciences, one whose methodology allows for uncertainties.

Brilliant and timely study of the motivations behind Bush's response to terrorism.

Papers originally presented at a conference on Structures of the World Political Economy and Future Global Conflict and Cooperation, held in April of 2013 at the University of California-Riverside.

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'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.

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.

Definitive survey of world-systems theory, including an in depth interview with Immanuel Wallerstein, its founder.

Provides an analysis of African politics during the period when the colonial system began to disintegrate. Written as Africa was just realizing independence and still reveling in the optimism it brought, this work also examines the African unity movement that arose between 1957 and 1965 and its revolutionary core.

Develops a thorough-going critique of the legacy of nineteenth-century social science for social thought in the new millennium. This title demonstrates how the new insights lead to a revision of world-systems analysis.

Some of today's most prominent academics discuss the capitalist world economy.