Wallerstein, Immanuel (1930) Reference library
The Encyclopedia of the History of American Management
..., Immanuel ( 1930 –) Immanuel Wallerstein was born in New York on 28 September 1930 , the son of Lazar and Sally Wallerstein . He attended Columbia University, where he took his BA in 1951 ; after service in the US Army from 1951 to 1953 , he returned to Columbia and took his MA in 1954 , and his Ph.D. in 1959 . He was assistant professor at Columbia from 1949 to 1963 , and associate professor of sociology from 1963 to 1971 . He then moved to McGill University in Montreal, where he was professor of sociology from 1971 to 1976 . In the...
Wallerstein, Immanuel
Dictionary of the Social Sciences
..., Immanuel ( 1930– ) Historical sociologist known primarily for his pioneering work on world-systems theory —the historical study of the emergence of global relations of economic and political power. World-systems theory grew out of Wallersteint's early work on African development, which he came to see as inextricable from a larger international economic and political order. Methodologically, it was shaped by the great interdisciplinary syntheses of the Annales school historians, especially Fernand Braudel . Wallerstein investigated the origins and...
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A Dictionary of Human Geography
..., Immanuel ( 1930 – ) A US sociologist and founder of the world-systems approach . After appointments at Columbia University in New York and McGill University in Montreal, he spent most of his career at the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilization at Binghamton University in Vestal, New York. World-systems analysis has influenced geographical thinking in political geography, world city networks , and global commodity chains . His best-known work is the Modern World-System ( 1974–2011 ), of which the...
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A Dictionary of Critical Theory (2 ed.)
..., Immanuel ( 1930– ) American historian and sociologist , best known for the elaboration of the world-systems theory. His initial training was in the economic development of postcolonial Africa, but in the early 1970s he started to take a broader, more global view of economic development in recognition of the fact that the situation in Africa could not be accounted for satisfactorily without taking into account factors (such as international trade, information flows, strategic alliances, etc.) that are now associated with the process known as ...
Immanuel Wallerstein
Braudel, Fernand Reference library
Immanuel Wallerstein
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
...and Capitalism, 15th–18th Century , vol. 3, The Perspective of the World. London, 1984. Gemelli, Giuliana . Fernand Braudel e l'Europa universale . Venice, 1990. Published in French as Fernand Braudel. Paris, 1995. Wallerstein, Immanuel . Unthinking Social Science . 2d ed. Part 5, Revisiting Braudel. Philadelphia, 2001. Immanuel ...
Liberalism Reference library
Immanuel WALLERSTEIN
Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History (2 ed.)
...to be the dominant ideology of the world-system in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, by the beginning of the twenty-first century, liberalism seemed to have become very much a minority point of view besieged on all sides. Immanuel WALLERSTEIN Yale University Further Reading Bertier de Sauvigny, G. (1970). Liberalism, nationalism and socialism: The birth of three words. Review of Politics , XXXII (2), 147–166. Billington, J. H. (1980). Fire in the minds of men: Origins of revolutionary faith . New York:...
Fernand Braudel
André Gunder Frank
modernization theory
center–periphery
Frederick Winslow Taylor
core–periphery
Annales School
Étienne Balibar
world-systems theory
dependency theory
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globalization
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
...system ( world system theory ) [Th] A concept developed by the American historian Immanuel Wallerstein to refer to an economic unit extending beyond the boundaries of an individual nation‐state by virtue of trade networks and economic alliances. The example used by Wallerstein was the relationship that developed between Europe and the West Indies in the 16th century ad . As such it emphasizes that ‘world systems’ do not embrace the whole world, but do operate on a large scale. Implicit to the idea of a world system is the existence of ‘core’,...
