The essential Wallerstein / Immanuel Wallerstein.

Includes bibliographical references.

En Route to World-Systems Analysis -- Ethnicity and National Integration in West Africa -- Fanon and the Revolutionary Class -- Radical Intellectuals in a Liberal Society -- Africa in a Capitalist World -- World-Systems Analysis and Social Science -- The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis -- Modernization: Requiescat in Pace -- Societal Development, or Development of the World-System? -- World-Systems Analysis -- Hold the Tiller Firm: On Method and the Unit of Analysis -- Time and Duration: The Unexcluded Middle, or Reflections on Braudel and Prigogine -- What Are We Bounding, and Whom, When We Bound Social Research? -- Social Scierce and the Quest for a Just Society -- Institutions of the Capitalist World-Economy -- Long Waves as Capitalist Process -- (With Terence K. Hopkins) Commodity Chains in the World-Economy Prior to 1800 -- (With Joan Smith) Households as an Institution of the World-Economy -- The Three Instances of Hegemony in the History of the Capitalist World-Economy -- Culture as the Ideological Battleground of the Modern World-System -- Cleavages in the World-System: Race, Nation, Class, Ethnicity, Gender -- The Construction of Peoplehood: Racism, Nationalism, Ethnicity -- Does India Exist? -- Class Formation in the Capitalist World-Economy -- The Bourgeois(ie) as Concept and Reality -- The Ideological Tensions of Capitalism: Universalism Versus Racism and Sexism -- Resistance, Hope, and Deception -- 1968, Revolution in the World-System: Theses and Queries.