Immanuel Wallerstein, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Christian Suter

Gebundenes Buch

Overcoming Global Inequalities

Beschreibung

This book examines the changing nature of global inequalities and efforts that are being made to move toward a more egalitarian world society. The contributors are world historical sociologists and geographers who place the contemporary issues of unequal power, wealth, and income in a global historical perspective. The geographers examine the roles of geopolitics and patterns of warfare in the historical development of the modern world-system, and the sociologists examine endeavors to improve the situations of poor peoples and nations and to engage the challenges of sustainability that are linked with global inequalities. This is cutting-edge research from engaged social scientists intended to help humanity deal with the challenges of global inequality in the 21st century.

Autor

Immanuel Wallerstein has been a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University since 2000, having taught previously at many distinguished universities. Among his many books, he is the author of the magisterial 4-volume work, The Modern World System. Volume IV is recently published. Christopher Chase-Dunn is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of California-Riverside. Chase-Dunn is the founder and former editor of the Journal of World-Systems Research and author most recently of Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present (Paradigm 2013). Christian Suter is Professor of Sociology at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. A scholar of ethnology and social and economic history, He is the author of numerous articles and several books.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 501g
• ISBN-13: 9781612056753
• ISBN-10: 161205675X
• Artikelnr.: 39758815