{"product_id":"the-essential-wallerstein-by-immanuel-maurice-wallerstein","title":"The Essential Wallerstein by Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein","description":"\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781565845930\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe New Press, May 2000\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e471 pages, Paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMinor shelf wear.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eImmanuel Wallerstein is one of the most innovative social scientists of his generation. Past president of the International Sociological Association, he has had a major influence on the development of social thought throughout the world, and his books are translated into every major language. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Essential Wallerstein\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e brings together for the first time the full range of his scholarship.This comprehensive collection of essays offers a unique overview of this seminal thinker's work, showing the development of his thought: from his groundbreaking research on contemporary African politics and social change, to his study of the modern world-system, to his current essays on the new structures of knowledge emerging from the crisis of the capitalist world-economy. His singular focus on the way in which change in one part of the globe affects the whole is all the more relevant as the world grows increasingly interdependent. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Essential Wallerstein\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis an ideal introduction to the extensive body of work from a thinker who helped introduce globally sensitive thinking to the field of social science.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is the first in a series of Readers bringing together the key works of major figures in the social sciences.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"I H Pentz Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47347267764386,"sku":null,"price":250.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0364\/4047\/3732\/files\/51aVr_shz7L._SL1206.jpg?v=1781691723","url":"https:\/\/pentzbooks.co.za\/products\/the-essential-wallerstein-by-immanuel-maurice-wallerstein","provider":"I H Pentz Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}