Description: An introduction to world systems analysis by its creator.
Review Quotes: "At a time when globalization is at the center of international debate from Davos to Porto Alegre, an introduction to 'world-systems analysis, ' an original approach to world development since the sixteenth century, is timely and relevant. This is a lucidly written and comprehensive treatment of its origins, controversies, and development by Immanuel Wallerstein, its undoubted pioneer and most eminent practitioner."--Eric Hobsbawm, author of Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life and The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991