Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture

by Bruce W. Robbins, Nirvana Tanoukhi, Richard E. Lee, et al.

Book Overview

In this collection of essays, leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging with Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems analysis. The renowned sociologist developed his influential critical framework to explain the historical and continuing exploitation of the rest of the world by the West. World-systems analysis reflects Wallerstein's conviction that understanding global inequality...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822348489
• ISBN13: 9780822348481
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"