Abstract
World-System is a pioneering work that opens up new horizons for research, gener ates new problems, and elaborates new methods. At the same time, it is a difficult work that proceeds not by constructing a his tory, but by critiquing the categories of existing historiography. For this reason it seems as if the world-system approach is an historicized version of Parsonian structural-functionalism where the social system determines everything. Indeed it has frequently been interpreted in this way However, this is a one-sided reading that misses the perspective's potential. The vol ume under review here breaks with liberal
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