Centrist liberalism triumphant, 1789/1914 /
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 t...
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
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| Colecção: | Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice, 1930-2019. Modern world-system.
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| Acesso em linha: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnkzv |
| Resumo: | 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 ... Show Moreworldwide 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. |
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| Descrição Física: | 1 online resource (377 pages) |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-357) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520948600 0520948602 9786613277749 6613277746 9780520267602 0520267605 9780520267619 0520267613 |