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A History of Development Economics Thought: Challenges and Counter-challenges
(Routledge, 2014)
This book explores the history of economic development thought, with an emphasis on alternative approaches in macro development economics. Given that the pioneers of development economics in the 1940s and 1950s drew ...
The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century
(University of California Press, 2011)
Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the ...
The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green
(University of California Press, 2015)
One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned ...
The Modern World-System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600-1750
(University of California Press, 2011)
Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the ...
The Modern World-System III: The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730s-1840s
(University of California Press, 2011)
Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the ...
The modern Middle East: a political history since the First World War
(University of California Press, 2011)
Since it was first published in 2006, this concise overview of the making of the contemporary Middle East has become essential reading for students and general readers who want to gain a better understanding of this diverse ...
The Modern World-System IV: Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789-1914
(University of California Press, 2011)
Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the ...
Sacred founders: women, men, and gods in the Roman and early Byzantine discourse of imperial founding
(University of California Press, 2015)
Diliana Angelova argues that from the time of Augustus through early Byzantium, a discourse of “sacred founders”—articulated in artwork, literature, imperial honors, and the built environment—helped legitimize the authority ...
The Light of the World: Astronomy in al-Andalus
(University of California Press, 2016)
This book contains an edition—with an extensive introduction, translation and commentary—of The Light of the World, a text on theoretical astronomy by Joseph Ibn Nahmias, composed in Judeo-Arabic around 1400 C.E. in the ...
A state of mixture: Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian political culture in late Antiquity
(University of California Press, 2015)
Christian communities flourished during late antiquity in a Zoroastrian political system, known as the Iranian Empire, that integrated culturally and geographically disparate territories from Arabia to Afghanistan into its ...