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Title: The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times by Giovanni Arrighi ISBN: 1-85984-015-9 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: December, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Fascinating, challenging, erudite.
Comment: I consider myself fairly well educated: I have a Ph.D. and I've thrived on books in this genre, such as _Europe and the People Without History_ and _The Colonizer's Model of the World_. But I find Arrighi's book a difficult one--a little beyond most readers, I should think.
There are three main reasons for this: a.) Arrighi fails to write for a larger audience and b.) fails to write as clearly as he could; and c.) Arrighi is assuming fluency in Braudel, Wallerstein, Abu-Lughod, and a host of other scholars who have tackled the rise of capitalist empires.
I think most Americans, who have a mediocre background in Marxist theory, world systems theory, class dynamics, and hegemony, might want to pass. Does the name Gramsci ring a bell? How about the basic premises of Lenin? Which way did you nod your head when I mentioned Abu-Lughod? If these notions aren't a part of your working knowledge, take a pass on this book. Try one of the two books I mentioned at the top. And if you *are* well-versed in Braudel, macro-economic theory, and critical discussions of imperialism, you might venture to read this difficult work. Arrighi has put together an ambitious, provocative work, a serious investigation into the power-economies of empires.
Rating: 4
Summary: A must read
Comment: If you are a student of the international system or international relations this is a must read. It should be considered the second part in a five volume set. The first should be something about world systems theory by Wallerstein, a reader will do, then Fernand Braudel's Perspective of the World, followed by Hopkins and Wallertein's Age of Transition. For the final book I recommend Robert Gilpin's response to these works, The Challenge of Global Capitalism published in 2000.
Rating: 1
Summary: To be Honest
Comment: If you like the usual Marxist c**p you will like this book.
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Title: Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System (Contradictions of Modernity, 10) by Giovanni Arrighi, Arrighi Giovanni, Beverly J. Silver, Iftikhar Ahmad ISBN: 0816631522 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Essential Wallerstein by Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein ISBN: 1565845935 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The New Imperialism (Clarendon Lectures in Geography and Environmental Studies) by David Harvey ISBN: 0199264317 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Debating Empire (New Left Review Debates) by Gopal Balakrishnan, Stanley Aronowitz, Giovanni Arrighi ISBN: 1859844529 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: 04 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Reorient: Global Economy in the Asian Age by Andre Gunder Frank ISBN: 0520214749 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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