The Age of Transition: Trajectory of the World System, 1945-2025

by Immanuel Wallerstein, Hopkins and Wallerstein, Terence K. Hopkins

Book Overview

Everyone agrees the world is changing in the 1990s with the end of the Cold War and with a supposedly new globalization. But are these the essential changes? In order to see where the world is headed in the next quarter-century, it is crucial to analyse correctly where it has been since 1945. It is the contention of this book that the post-1945 world already saw its major moment of change in the years 1967-73, a moment in which there was a conjuncture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1856494403
• ISBN13: 9781856494403
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.6"