{"product_id":"the-essential-wallerstein-9781565845930","title":"The Essential Wallerstein","description":"\u003cp\u003eImmanuel Wallerstein is one of the most innovative social scientists of his generation. Past president of the International Sociological Association, he has had a major influence on the development of social thought throughout the world, and his books are translated into every major language. \u003ci\u003eThe Essential Wallerstein\u003c\/i\u003e brings together for the first time the full range of his scholarship.This comprehensive collection of essays offers a unique overview of this seminal thinker's work, showing the development of his thought: from his groundbreaking research on contemporary African politics and social change, to his study of the modern world-system, to his current essays on the new structures of knowledge emerging from the crisis of the capitalist world-economy. His singular focus on the way in which change in one part of the globe affects the whole is all the more relevant as the world grows increasingly interdependent. \u003ci\u003eThe Essential Wallerstein \u003c\/i\u003eis an ideal introduction to the extensive body of work from a thinker who helped introduce globally sensitive thinking to the field of social science.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first in a series of Readers bringing together the key works of major figures in the social sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImmanuel Wallerstein is a senior research scholar in the department of sociology at Yale University and director emeritus of the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University. He is also a resident researcher at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris. His many books include \u003ci\u003eThe Modern World-System\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHistorical Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e. The New Press has published \u003ci\u003eAfter Liberalism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Decline of American Power\u003c\/i\u003e, and a collection of his works, \u003ci\u003eThe Essential Wallerstein\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, and Paris, France.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50918141755666,"sku":"9781565845930","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6b4bfafa-8641-4aa8-b5aa-6e48ffb11816.jpg?v=1738877848","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-essential-wallerstein-9781565845930","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}