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...

Draws together discussions of the idea of orientalism, the right to intervene, and the triumph of science over the humanities to explain how strategies designed to promote particular Western interests have acquired an all-inclusive...