Modern World-System in the Longue Duree

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Scholarship and Reality -- Part I: The Capitalist World-Economy: From Past to Future -- 1 Globalism or Apartheid on a Global Scale? -- 2 Through the Obstacle(s) and on to Global Socialism -- 3 Europe: The Asymptote of Political Integration -- 4 Using, Producing, and Replacing Life?: Alchemy as Theory and Practice in Capitalism -- 5 Hegemony and Antisystemic Movements -- 6 Present Systemic Trends and Antisystemic Movements -- 7 Proletarian Internationalism: A Long View and Some Speculations -- Part II: Structures of Knowledge and Constructed Knowledge in the Modern World -- 8 Commonality and Divergence of World Intellectual Structures in the Second Millennium CE -- 9 Africa and African Studies -- 10 A Critique of Lazy Reason: Against the Waste of Experience -- 11 Continuing American Provincialism and the Rest of the World -- 12 Does One Represent Reality or Does One Explain It? -- 13 The Scholarly Mainstream and Reality: Are We at a Turning Point? -- 14 The North Atlantic Universals -- Index -- About the Contributors.