Review: The Long Twentieth Century
User Review - courtney - GoodreadsRead the first section of this for class. Obviously hard to get through, but pretty awesome. Globalization is not a new thing and cycles of hegemonic power comprise the history of the capitalist world ... Read full review
Review: The Long Twentieth Century
User Review - Hadrian - GoodreadsThis is an expansive economic history of the modern world - it draws ideas from Adam Smith, Polanyi's conceptions of the free market, Marx's histories of capitalist societies, Braudel's theory of ... Read full review
Review: The Long Twentieth Century
User Review - Henri Troppmann - Goodreadsthis book will blow your god damned mind. Read full review
Review: The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times
User Review - Richard - GoodreadsUnread, and maybe too big to really want to tackle. The crisis in the economically dominant western states seems to me to be a symptom of a long term decline of economic hegemony. Many in the Anglo ... Read full review
Review: The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times
User Review - Joe - GoodreadsReviewed 7/7/2010 The History of Capitalism Why is this edition "new and updated"? Apparently, because of the 15 page Postscript at the end of the book (pp. 371-386). (I had read the first edition ... Read full review
Review: The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times
User Review - Lukáš - GoodreadsA very dense reading, which turned out to be far better than I actually thought. Of course, the limits of its macro-focus are visible throughout the whole piece, yet the attention given to the layers ... Read full review
Review: The Long Twentieth Century
User Review - Kelly - GoodreadsI mean, its pretty much a Marxist-Braudelian theory of successive imperial ovverreaches that have led to the present day system, but I really liked it. Considered seminal by a certain group of people ... Read full review
Review: The Long Twentieth Century
User Review - Jm - GoodreadsA very well-documented history of the cycles of development of the capitalist world-system. Arrighi's analysis, drawing from Marx and Wallerstein, provides a good historical context for understanding what's happening in current global crisis of capitalism. Read full review
Review: The Long Twentieth Century
User Review - Chelsea Szendi - GoodreadsThe intense and intricate work of an intense and intricate mind marrying Braudel and Marx (two more intense and intricate minds). Not to be missed: the March-April 2009 New Left Review interview of Arrighi by David Harvey. Read full review
Review: The Long Twentieth Century
User Review - Machala Machala - GoodreadsSurely one of the best books I've ever read. Arrighi has fascinating ideas about capitalism as a historical phenomenon and about its uncertain future. Read full review
