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Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto's now-classic analysis of Latin American dependent development is perhaps the most important synthesis of the shifting alliances between classes and interest groups that have been cause and consequence of nation-building, state formation, and capital accumulation in Latin America. The book is admirable in many ways, but especially in the scale of its focus across time and space. Rather than telling us every detail of a particular country or period it uses an analytical perspective based on class analysis to compare "situations of dependency" across Latin America from the period of decolonization in the early nineteenth century to the 1970s. I am not a Latin Americanist and so I cannot evaluate the many interpretations of political events in the book. Rather my comments will focus on its theoretical implications, its special strengths, and its possible limitations from the point of view of the capitalist world system as a whole.

Social movements and collective behavior in history and prehistory -- Resistance to neoliberalism in the global north and south: national and local dynamics -- Transnational movements: climate justice -- The new global left and the world revolution of 20xx: movements, culture, fronts, and organization -- Evolution of the global right in the geoculture -- The future of global change and social movements.

Introduction to global social change / Christopher Chase-Dunn, Salvatore J. Babones -- Conducting global social research / Salvatore J. Babones -- What is globalization? -- Global social change in the long run / Thomas D. Hall, Christopher K. Chase-Dunn -- Competing conceptions of globalization / Leslie Sklair -- Globalization : a world-systems perspective / Christopher K. Chase-Dunn -- Global inequality -- Global inequality : an introduction / Jonathan H. Turner, Salvatore J. Babones -- Global energy inequalities : exploring the long-term implications / Bruce Podobnik -- Globalization and the environment -- Ecosystems and world systems : accumulation as an ecological process / Alf Hornborg -- Global social change, natural resource consumption, and environmental degradation / Andrew W. Jorgenson -- Globalization, hegemony, and global governance -- Spatial and other "fixes" of historical capitalism / Giovanni Arrighi -- Contemporary intra-core relations and world systems theory / Peter Gowan -- Global social movements -- Gender and globalization : female labor and women's mobilization / Valentine M. Moghadam -- Environmentalism & the trajectory of the anti-corporate globalization movement / Frederick H. Buttel, Kenneth A. Gould -- National and global foundations of global civil society / Jackie Smith, Dawn Wiest -- Transnational social movements and democratic socialist parties in the semiperiphery : on to global democracy / Terry Boswell, Christopher Chase-Dunn -- Globalization and the future of democracy / John Markoff.

The rise and decline of great powers remains a fascinating topic of vigorous debate. This book brings together leading scholars to explore the historical evolution of world systems through examining the ebb and flow of great powers over time, with particular emphasis on early time periods