From the Publisher: Making Waves unearths the successive, worldwide waves of revolts, rebellions, and revolutions that have shaken and remade the world from the eighteenth century to the present. It challenges us to rethink not only our limited conceptions of social movements but the very character...

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Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Boulder, Colo. [u.a.] Paradigm Publ. 2008
Schriftenreihe:	Fernand Braudel Center series
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1750-2005 Geschichte Globalisierung Kapitalismus Social movements > History Social conflict > History Capitalism > History Globalization > History Soziale Bewegung Aufsatzsammlung
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Zusammenfassung:	From the Publisher: Making Waves unearths the successive, worldwide waves of revolts, rebellions, and revolutions that have shaken and remade the world from the eighteenth century to the present. It challenges us to rethink not only our limited conceptions of social movements but the very character and possibilities of social movements. The authors show how successive outbursts of global social protest have undermined world capitalist orders and, through both their successes and their failures, provided the basis for long periods of stable capitalist rule across all the zones of the world-economy. The surprises start in the Age of Revolution, when the antisystemic wave of slave revolts that led to the Haitian Revolution is related to the systemic effects of their combination with the U.S. and French Revolutions. The analysis comes up to the present, when a wave of post-1989 movements points to quite divergent futures based, as in the past, on the search for alternatives to communities organized by capital accumulation, nation-states, and the accelerating commodification and fragmentation of human needs, identities, and desires.
Beschreibung:	"This is the first of three inter-related books (in a project directed by Immanuel Wallerstein) whose overall objective is to provide an alternative account of contemporary developments of globalization. Current events can only be understood within the historical development of the capitalist world-economy. Authors will explore the three interrelated loci of action within the system - the structural trends in the capitalist world-economy, the categories of social knowledge, and the waves of antisystemic movements. Each book will investigate each of these sectors worldwide for long historical periods (two to four centuries) to discern what is special about the current period, and to seek to understand why we are nearing a crisis- breakpoint of the historical system in which we live today" -- Provided by the publisher. Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	VIII, 215 S.
ISBN:	9781594514807