wyszukanych pozycji: 20
Rise and Demise: Comparing World Systems
ISBN: 9780367320157 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Spanning ten thousand years of social change, this book examines the ways in which world-systems evolve. A comparative study of stateless societies, state-based regional empires, and the modern global capitalist political economy, it reveals the underlying processes at work in the reproduction and transformation of social, economic, and political s
Spanning ten thousand years of social change, this book examines the ways in which world-systems evolve. A comparative study of stateless societies, s...
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700,25 zł |
Global Formation: Structures of the World Economy
ISBN: 9780847691029 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The fall of communism, the emergence of the information age, and the expansion of economic globalism are the point of departure for this text. The author shows how these seemingly new developments fit with earlier patterns of global formation and change. This edition also evaluates studies of the modern world-system and assesses the implications for the future of the contemporary system.
The fall of communism, the emergence of the information age, and the expansion of economic globalism are the point of departure for this text. The aut...
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371,28 zł |
Globalization on the Ground: Postbellum Guatemalan Democracy and Development
ISBN: 9780742508675 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume presents research, analysis and reflections on the major issues of Guatemalan development and democracy: the role of the military, the involement of Mayan communities in national development; the possible emergence of more inclusive political institutions; and the roles of international forces and agencies in Guatemalan social change.
This volume presents research, analysis and reflections on the major issues of Guatemalan development and democracy: the role of the military, the inv...
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251,16 zł |
Core/Periphery Relations in Precapitalist Worlds
ISBN: 9780367164676 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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197,05 zł |
Global Struggles and Social Change: From Prehistory to World Revolution in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9781421438627 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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144,69 zł |
Social Change : Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present
ISBN: 9781612053288 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the Stone Age to the Internet Age, this book tells the story of human sociocultural evolution. It describes the conditions under which hunter-gatherers, horticulturalists, agricultural states, and industrial capitalist societies formed, flourished, and declined. Drawing evidence from archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, historical documents, statistics, and survey research, the authors trace the growth of human societies and their complexity, and they probe the conflicts in hierarchies both within and among societies. They also explain the macro-micro links that connect cultural...
From the Stone Age to the Internet Age, this book tells the story of human sociocultural evolution. It describes the conditions under which hunter-gat...
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477,15 zł |
Unity on the Global Left: Critical Reflections on Samir Amin's Call for a New International
ISBN: 9780367552220 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book brings together a collection of essays by progressive global activists in response to Samir Amin's call for a new global organization of progressive workers and peoples. Amin's proposal is applauded, criticized and reformulated by these scholar-activists who are all proponents of ways forward toward a more egalitarian world society. Samir Amin, a leading scholar and co-founder of the world-system tradition, died on August 12, 2018. Just before his death, he published, along with close allies, a call for 'workers and the people' to establish a 'fifth international' to coordinate...
This book brings together a collection of essays by progressive global activists in response to Samir Amin's call for a new global organization of pro...
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700,25 zł |
Core/Periphery Relations in Precapitalist Worlds
ISBN: 9780367014803 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book demonstrates that Immanuel Wallerstein's reluctance to apply core and periphery to precapitalist transformations is a product of the way he views the luxury trade. It utilizes the study of different kinds of world-systems to explore how logics of social reproduction become transformed.
This book demonstrates that Immanuel Wallerstein's reluctance to apply core and periphery to precapitalist transformations is a product of the way he ...
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674,31 zł |
Transnational Corporations and Underdevelopment.
ISBN: 9780275900632 / Angielski / Twarda / 1985 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Do investments by multinational corporations in less developed countries enhance or hinder economic development in those countries? This volume presents a re-evaulation of twenty-seven of the most important studies which were carried out to answer this question. The authors attempt to resolve the disparate findings which show that investment promotes short-run growth but in the long run retards growth. They also present a careful empirical analysis of the intervening political, social, and economic mechanisms through which the effects of investment are transmitted. The volume will clarify... Do investments by multinational corporations in less developed countries enhance or hinder economic development in those countries? This volume pre... |
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300,30 zł |
The Future of Global Conflict
ISBN: 9780761958666 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This critical analysis of long-term trends and recent developments in world systems examines such questions as: Will the cycles of boom and bust, peace and war of the past 500 years continue? Or have either long-term trends or recent changes so profoundly altered the structure of world systems that these cycles will end or take on a less destructive form?
The noted international contributors to this volume examine the question of future dominance of the core global systems and include comprehensive discussions of the economic, political and military role of the Pacific Rim, Japan and the... This critical analysis of long-term trends and recent developments in world systems examines such questions as: Will the cycles of boom and bust, peac...
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67,38 zł |
Hegemonic Decline: Present and Past
ISBN: 9781594510083 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Although the United States is currently the world's only military and economic superpower, the nation's superpower status may not last. The possible futures of the global system and the role of U.S. power are illuminated by careful study of the past. This book addresses the problems of conceptualizing and assessing hegemonic rise and decline in comparative and historical perspective. Several chapters are devoted to the study of hegemony in premodern world-systems. And several chapters scrutinize the contemporary position and trajectory of the United States in the larger world-system in...
Although the United States is currently the world's only military and economic superpower, the nation's superpower status may not last. The possible f...
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907,73 zł |
Routledge Handbook of World-Systems Analysis
ISBN: 9780415563642 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 541 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume reviews the state of the field of world-systems analysis. World-systems analysts study the structure of the relationships among people, organisations, and states and how those relationships change over time.
This volume reviews the state of the field of world-systems analysis. World-systems analysts study the structure of the relationships among people, or...
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1141,14 zł |
The Historical Evolution of World-Systems
ISBN: 9781349529261 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book brings together leading scholars to explore the historical evolution of world systems through examining the ebb and flow of great powers over time, with particular emphasis on early time periods.
This book brings together leading scholars to explore the historical evolution of world systems through examining the ebb and flow of great powers ove...
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191,40 zł |
The Historical Evolution of World-Systems
ISBN: 9781403965905 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. The rise and decline of great powers remains a fascinating topic of vigorous debate. This book brings together leading scholars to explore the historical evolution of world systems through examining the ebb and flow of great powers over time, with particular emphasis on early time periods. The book advances understanding of the regularities in the dynamics of empire and the expansion of political, social and economic interaction networks, from the Bronze Age forward. The authors analyze the expansion and contraction of cross-cultural trade networks and systems of competing and allying...
The rise and decline of great powers remains a fascinating topic of vigorous debate. This book brings together leading scholars to explore the histori...
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191,40 zł |
Rise And Demise : Comparing World Systems
ISBN: 9780813310060 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 335 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Spanning ten thousand years of social change, this book examines the ways in which world-systems evolve. A comparative study of stateless societies, state-based regional empires, and the modern global capitalist political economy, it reveals the underlying processes at work in the reproduction and transformation of social, economic, and political structures.Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas Hall show that stateless societies developed in the context of regional intersocietal networks that differed significantly from larger and more hierarchical world-systems. The processes by which chiefdoms...
Spanning ten thousand years of social change, this book examines the ways in which world-systems evolve. A comparative study of stateless societies, s...
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228,18 zł |
Overcoming Global Inequalities
ISBN: 9781612056753 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book examines the changing nature of global inequalities and efforts that are being made to move toward a more egalitarian world society. The contributors are world historical sociologists and geographers who place the contemporary issues of unequal power, wealth and income in a global historical perspective. The geographers examine the roles of geopolitics and patterns of warfare in the historical development of the modern world-system, and the sociologists examine endeavours to improve the situations of poor peoples and nations and to engage the challenges of sustainability that are...
This book examines the changing nature of global inequalities and efforts that are being made to move toward a more egalitarian world society. The con...
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1089,27 zł |
The Remorseful Robber: A Christopher Piantedosi Story
ISBN: 9781512139235 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Christopher Piantedosi became an overnight media sensation dubbed "The Remorseful Robber" in 2011 when he snatched a woman's purse at a Market Basket in Plaistow, New Hampshire and then returned the contents, along with a note of apology, to the woman at her home a few days later. The house of cards that was his life spiraled downward to tragedy.
Christopher Piantedosi became an overnight media sensation dubbed "The Remorseful Robber" in 2011 when he snatched a woman's purse at a Market Basket ...
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59,15 zł |
Overcoming Global Inequalities
ISBN: 9781612056883 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Papers originally presented at a conference on Structures of the World Political Economy and Future Global Conflict and Cooperation, held in April of 2013 at the University of California-Riverside.
Papers originally presented at a conference on Structures of the World Political Economy and Future Global Conflict and Cooperation, held in April of ...
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197,05 zł |
Songs of the Osirian
ISBN: 9781535166393 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the award winning author of Sir Laurence Dies comes this epic fantasy tale of the Osirian return to Earth. It was written ... beings known as Servants of Light appeared as gifts to Man. Their majesty unlike anything seen; their Songs so angelic a single melody turned barren soil fertile. They were worshiped and called Osirian. For years they shared knowledge, bringing peace and prosperity to mankind. But when an ancient evil awoke and corrupted the world, the Osirian swapped books for swords and led Man to war. Victory came at a price. The aftermath created disillusioned men and woman...
From the award winning author of Sir Laurence Dies comes this epic fantasy tale of the Osirian return to Earth. It was written ... beings known as Ser...
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73,94 zł |
Routledge Handbook of World-Systems Analysis
ISBN: 9781138107199 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 542 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. World-systems analysis has developed rapidly over the past thirty years. Today's students and junior scholars come to world-systems analysis as a well-established approach spanning all of the social sciences. The best world-systems scholarship, however, is spread across multiple methodologies and more than half a dozen academic disciplines. Aiming to crystallize forty years of progress and lay the groundwork for the continued development of the field, the Handbook of World-Systems Analysis is a comprehensive review of the state of the field of world-systems analysis since its origins almost...
World-systems analysis has developed rapidly over the past thirty years. Today's students and junior scholars come to world-systems analysis as a well...
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228,18 zł |