In this volume, complementary to Immanuel Wallerstein's "The Modern World-System", the author addresses theoretical questions raised in the analysis of the capitalist world-economy and reviews recent research which bears on these questions. He formulates a structuralist approach, reframing Marx's theory of capitalist accumulation to incorporate the processes of class formation and state building. The author also reviews recent literature about states and capitalism as well as the core/periphery relationship. The book includes a discussion of methodological difficulties encountered in the empirical study of world-system processes. It is an effort to take the world-system perspective beyond historical interpretation to an explicitly structuralist theorization which can be evaluated by comparative research.
- ISBN10 1557862737
- ISBN13 9781557862730
- Publish Date 25 April 1991 (first published 5 October 1989)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 November 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Blackwell Publishers
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English