The Way the Modern World Works: World Hegemony to World Impasse

by Peter J. Taylor

Book Overview

Is it America s historic destiny to be the last of the hegemons ? Hegemonic states are very special countries that have simultaneously dominated the world both economically and politically and it seems increasingly likely that no country can follow the USA in this role. In this intellectual and creative tour de force, Peter Taylor, famous as the creator of world-systems political geography, examines hegemony as a concept in social practices and by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471965863
• ISBN13: 9780471965862
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Best book by Peter Taylor

The title is a bit pompous. The book looks like another regurgitation of already well written world-systems garbage. Surprisingly, though, Peter Taylor has come up with something more readable than Arrighi's "The Long Twentieth Century" and perhaps more theoretically sound. I am currently writing a Masters thesis in political geography, and I was pleasantly surprised when I read this book after a plethora of others by Taylor and Arrighi. Having read a good dozen books on hegemony, this is my favorite one yet. If it weren't for the outrageous price (get it from the library!), it might be the book that would convert other structuralists over to world-systems theory. If you are into geohistorical analysis or hegemonic discourse you must read this book. Kudos to Doctor Taylor! Job well done. (His book "Modernities" was excellent too!)