GEOMETRY OF IMPERIALISM by Giovanni Arrighi ( 9780860917663 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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GEOMETRY OF IMPERIALISM
LIMITS OF HOBSON'S PARADIGM

By:

Giovanni Arrighi

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0860917665

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9780860917663

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VERSO BOOKS

Pub. date:

1 January, 1983

Edition:

2nd Revised edition

Pages:

180

Translated from:

Italian

Synopsis:

Few terms in the vocabulary of politics are so confused as imperialism. Does it refer essentially to colonial rule? Or is it primarily an economic phenomenon, connected to the export of capital? What is its relation to nationalism? Which societies, in the past or present, can be properly described as imperialist? Giovanni Arrighi resolves these ambiguities by the construction of a formal model that integrates all of them into a single structure. He shows how a coherent paradigm of imperialism can be derived from Hobson's classic study of imperialism at the turn of the century, and illustrates it with a series of geometrical figures. The genesis of English imperialism is traced, from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. Then the pattern of German and American imperialism are compared and contrasted. Arrighi looks at the consequences of the rise of multinational corporations for the traditional versions of the concept of imperialism and concludes that they transform its meaning. In a new afterword, Arrighi responds to his critics and sketches a reconceptualized theory of imperialism as a struggle for world hegemony.

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