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it was also losing its social standing

revisionist trends in historical enquiry that have been dominant in the last twenty years

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The book remains of pressing relevance today – a testament to Firestone’s startlingly prescience

The Geometry of Imperialism keyword-dance these essays form a powerfulFew terms in the vocabulary of politics are so confused as imperialism. Does it refer essentially to colonial rule? Or is it primarily an economic phenomenon, connected to the export of capital? What is its relation to nationalism? Which societies, in the past or present, can be properly described as imperialist? Giovanni Arrighi resolves these ambiguities by the construction of a formal model that integrates all of them into a single structure. He