Re: Undergraduate Intro to W-S

Dear Elson,
Personnaly, I strongly recommand Wallerstein's "Historical Capitalism" (I
cannot give you the references of the original edition because I read it in
French, but it is a well known book) which is a good overview of W-S theory.
There are also some interesting articles about it on the JWSR web site.
You should also try Fernand Braudel's "La dynamique du capitalisme" if you
read in French, but it is a little bit "easy"...
Hope it will help.


Gilles Spielvogel
Ph D student in Economic Demography
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris


----- Original Message -----
From: Elson E. Boles <facbolese@usao.edu>
To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 1999 11:26 PM
Subject: Undergraduate Intro to W-S


> I'd like to hear views on which book you think is the best undergraduate
> INTRODUCTION to world-systems perspective.  Preferably a work which
> includes discussions of early world-systems, even a reader would do.
>
> elson
>