Ascent and Decline in the World-System

by Edward Friedman

Original essays chart the ascent and decline of specific nations and establish some of the principles of national movement within the world economic system. Germany, Britain, Taiwan and Turkey are nations whose specific cases are discussed. The effect of minorities and poorer regions within nations, in effect internal peripheries, is considered in essays on American Blacks and Hawaiians. The value of socialism as a strategy for ascent is examined...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803918291
• ISBN13: 9780803918290
• Release Date: June 1982
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.