Capitalism and Migration: The Rise of Hegemony in the World-System

by Néstor Rodríguez

This book explores the role of capital and labor migration in the expansion of the capitalist world-system. It presents comprehensive case studies on various historical periods of hegemony recognized by world-system theory: the Dutch hegemony (1625-1675), British hegemony (1815-1873), and US hegemony (1945-1970). Moreover, the book identifies an earlier period of economic dominance in Western Europe when merchant-bankers from Florence dominated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031220692
• ISBN13: 9783031220692
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"