The Geometry of Imperialism: The Limits of Hobson's Paradigm

by Giovanni Arrighi

Book Overview

Few terms in the vocabulary of politics are so confused as "imperialism." Does it refer essentially to colonial rule? Or is it primarily an economic phenomenon, connected to the export of capital? What is its relation to nationalism? Which societies, in the past or present, can be properly described as imperialist? Giovanni Arrighi resolves these ambiguities by the construction of a formal model that integrates all of them into a single structure...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0860917665
• ISBN13: 9780860917663
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"