biography
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Wallerstein, Immanuel (Maurice)
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| lived:
| (1930– )
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| biography:
| Sociologist, born in New York City, New York, USA. He studied at Columbia University (1951 BA; 1954 MA; 1959 PhD), and at Oxford (1955–6). He taught at Columbia (1958–71), McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1971–6), and State University of New York, Binghamton (1976), where he was distinguished professor of sociology and director of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economics, Historical Systems, and Civilizations. His many books dealing with the economy and political systems of the world include The Modern World-System (2 vols, 1974, 1980), The Politics of the World Economy (1984), and Geopolitics and Geoculture (1991). |
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