Long 20th Century Pa (New Updated

by Arrighi,Giovanni

• ISBN13: 9781844673049
• ISBN10: 1844673049
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-16
• Publisher: Random House (NY)

Summary

Winner of the American Sociological Association PEWS Award for Distinguished Scholarship: a comprehensive analysis of the development of world capitalism over the millennium. The Long Twentieth Centurytraces the epochal shifts in the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Building on the work of Fernand Braudel, Arrighi argues that the history of capitalism has unfolded as a succession of "long centuries"--ages during which a hegemonic power deploying a novel combination of economic and political networks secured control over an expanding world-economic space. The book concludes with an examination of the forces which have shaped and are now poised to undermine America's world power. Now a classic of history and sociology, the book is fully updated in the light of recent events.

Author Biography

Giovanni Arrighi (1937-2009) was Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, and one of the foremost scholars of world systems analysis and historical sociology. His books include Adam Smith in Beijing, The Geometry of Imperialism and, with Beverly Silver, Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
Preface and Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The Three Hegemonies of Historical Capitalism	p. 28
Hegemony, Capitalism, and Territorialism	p. 28
The Origins of the Modern Interstate System	p. 37
British Hegemony and Free-Trade Imperialism	p. 48
US Hegemony and the Rise of the Free Enterprise System	p. 59
Towards a New Research Agenda	p. 75
The Rise of Capital	p. 86
The Antecedents of Systemic Cycles of Accumulation	p. 86
The Genesis of High Finance	p. 97
The First (Genoese) Systemic Cycle of Accumulation	p. 111
The Second (Dutch) Systemic Cycle of Accumulation	p. 130
The Dialectic of State and Capital	p. 148
Industry, Empire, and the "Endless" Accumulation of Capital	p. 163
The Third (British) Systemic Cycle of Accumulation	p. 163
The Dialectic of Capitalism and Territorialism	p. 179
The Dialectic of Capitalism and Territorialism (Continued)	p. 200
Reprise and Preview	p. 219
The Long Twentieth Century	p. 247
The Dialectic of Market and Plan	p. 247
The Fourth (US) Systemic Cycle of Accumulation	p. 277
The Dynamics of Global Crisis	p. 309
Epilogue: Can Capitalism Survive Success?	p. 336
Postscript to the Second Edition	p. 371
References	p. 387
Index	p. 405
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