Uncertain Worlds : World-Systems Analysis in Changing Times.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Immanuel Wallerstein and the Critical "World-Systems Analysis" Perspective -- A General Map of the World-Systems Analysis Perspective -- The Historical-Critical Axis on the Global History of Capitalism -- The Axis of the Critical Analysis of the Historical Long Twentieth Century -- The Double Axis of the Analysis of Immediate History and the Prospective Scenarios of Present-Day Capitalism -- The Epistemological-Critical Axis and the Social Sciences -- One The World-Systems Analysis Perspective: An Interview with Immanuel Wallerstein -- Biographical-Intellectual Sketch -- Discussing the History of the Capitalist World-System -- Twentieth-Century History, Immediate History, and the Future of the Capitalist World-System -- Toward the Reorganization of the Current Social Sciences -- Two A Discussion of the Itinerary of World-Systems Analysis and Its Uncertainties -- Three Wallerstein and the Uncertain Worlds -- Historical Method and Drama -- The Modernizing World: Tragic Flat Line or Farcical Inequalities? -- Liberal Time versus Global TimeSpace -- Wallerstein's Theory of TimeSpace -- The Lessons of Complexity Studies for the Modern World-System -- Uncertain Worlds -- Four The Itinerary of World-Systems Analysis -- or, How to Resist Becoming a Theory -- Index -- About the Authors.

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

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