Includes bibliographical references and index

Rise and future demise of the world capitalist system: concepts for comparative analysis -- Three paths of national development in sixteenth-century Europe -- Present state of the debate on world inequality -- Dependence in an interdependent world: the limited possibilities of transformation within the capitalist world-economy -- Semiperipheral countries and the contemporary world crisis -- Rural economy in modern world society -- Modernization: requiescat in peace -- From feudalism to capitalism: transition or transitions? -- World-system perspective on the social sciences -- Social conflict in post-independence Black Africa: the concepts of race and status group reconsidered -- Two modes of ethnic consciousness: Soviet Central Asia in transition -- Class and class conflict in contemporary Africa -- American slavery and the capitalist world-economy -- Class formation in the capitalist world-economy -- Old problem and new syntheses: the relation of revolutionary ideas and practices -- Fanon and the revolutionary class -- Historical perspective on the emergence of the new international order: economic, political, cultural aspects

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