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Item Details
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THE LONG TWENTIETH CENTURY
MONEY, POWER AND THE ORIGINS OF OUR TIME |
| By: |
Giovanni Arrighi |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£60.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1844673219 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781844673216 |
| Publisher: |
VERSO BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2009 |
| Pages: |
400 |
| Description: |
Winner of the American Sociological Association PEWS Award for Distinguished Scholarship: a comprehensive analysis of the development of world capitalism over the millennium. |
| Synopsis: |
The Long Twentieth Century traces the epochal shifts in the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Giovanni Arrighi masterfully synthesizes social theory, comparative history and historical narrative in this account of the structures and agencies which have shaped the course of world history over the millennium. Borrowing from Braudel, Arrighi argues that the history of capitalism has unfolded as a succession of long centuries ages during which a hegemonic power deploying a novel combination of economic and political networks secured control over an expanding world-economic space. The modest beginnings, rise and violent unraveling of the links forged between capital, state power, and geopolitics by hegemonic classes and states are explored with dramatic intensity. From this perspective, Arrighi explains the changing fortunes of Florentine, Venetian, Genoese, Dutch, English, and finally American capitalism. The book concludes with an examination of the forces which have shaped and are now poised to undermine America's world power. |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Verso Books |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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