The Long Twentieth Century by Giovanni Arrighi

The Long Twentieth Century

Giovanni Arrighi

416 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced

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The Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that capitalism has unfolded as a succession of “long centuries,” each of which produced a new world power t...

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