Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789-1914 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520267602)

Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. This new volume encompasses the nineteenth century from the revolutionary era of 1789 to the First World War. In this crucial period, three great ideologies--conservatism, liberalism, and radicalism--emerged in response to the worldwide cultural transformation that came about when the French Revolution legitimized the sovereignty of the people. Wallerstein tells how capitalists, and Great Britain, brought relative order to the world and how liberalism triumphed as the dominant ideology.

Author: Immanuel Wallerstein
ISBN-10: 0520267605
ISBN-13: 9780520267602
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 06/10/2011
Pages: 396
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.20w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2011