I would like to heartily 2nd Carl's suggestion that Giovanni Arrighi's
book be considered for the PEWS award. It both summarizes and transcends
the deepest insights of W-S theory to date into the patterns structuring
historical capitalism, drawing upon but going beyond the advances of Waller-
stein and Braudel. I would also propose that we consider discussing it on
the net soon.
-Peter Grimes