A study of hegeomy and the world-system from the premodern to the present. Contributors include Thomas Reifer and Giovanni Arrighi.

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Offers an analysis of globalization and the lethal explosiveness that characterizes the world order. This work investigates global processes and political forces that determine networks of crime, commerce and terror, and reveals the economic, social and cultural fragmentation of transnational networks.

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'Friedman has produced a book of importance... It features many tantalizing insights and observations in the author's attempt to comprehend the global constitution of the world and the positional identities - not least the identities of social scientists - within the global arena' - Theory, Culture & Society

This study is an attempt to locate the practice of consumption within more general strategies of social self-definition. The essays in this volume are addressed to the understanding of consumption in terms of a larger matrix of social identity and the cultural strategies connected with it.

This study is an attempt to locate the practice of consumption within more general strategies of social self-definition. The essays in this volume are addressed to the understanding of consumption in terms of a larger matrix of social identity and the cultural strategies connected with it.