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Description: The Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that capitalism has unfolded as a succession of long centuries, each of which produced a new world power that secured control over an expanding world-economic space. Examining the changing fortunes of Florentine, Venetian, Genoese, Dutch, English and finally American capitalism, Arrighi concludes with an examination of the forces that have shaped and are now poised to undermine America's world dominance. A masterpiece of historical sociology, The Long Twentieth Century rivals in scope and ambition contemporary classics by Perry Anderson, Charles Tilly and Michael Mann.

 

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Author: Miketang

Rating: 5

Review: Brilliant exposition of the historical dialectic of the systemic cycles of capitalist development from the Italian city-states onwards. A real page-turner. What I really like about this book is that there is a wonderful synthesis between macro-systems theory and concrete historical illustration: enough historical illustration to make the ideas concrete without losing the line of argument. By contrast the pioneering achievement of Braudel in systems-based history (Civilization and Capitalism)projects a grand canvas of historical information that sometimes renders opaque the connective logic of his underlying thesis. Arrighi will be sorely missed. But this book is an enduring monument to his scholarship.

 

Author: V.Pezzoli

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Review: Arrighi était l'élève de Braudel, et il honore parfaitement son maître. Pour ceux familier du grand historien français, ils ne seront pas dépaysé ici. Arrighi avait parfaitement vu la fin de l'hégémonie américaine, il tente de l'expliquer en analysant le "long twentieth century". Pour ce faire il commencera par un récit passionnant sur les "ancêtres" des Etats-Unis, les cités-états italiennes (Gênes, Florence, Venise), la Hollande, et l'Angleterre du XIXe. Il nous explique comment ces puissances ont surgit, leur fonctionnement économique, politique, institutionnel; les raisons de leur déclin, leurs erreurs, leurs particularités, leur avant-gardisme. Arrighi différencie ce qu'il nomme le "territorialisme", c'est-à-dire le capitalisme d'Etat (ex. la France de Philippe le Bel), du système d'accumulation non-territorial (ex. Gênes). En gros les sédentaires contre les nomades, Caïn contre Abel. Le "territorialisme" cherchant toujours à incorporer la locomotive économique du moment (par exemple Louis XIV et ses guerres en Hollandes, ou bien avant Francois Ier et ses guerres d'Italie, duché de Milan, poumon économique de l'époque, etc.). Arrighi indique que l'Angleterre est le premier pays à fusionner ces deux modes de pouvoir, les anglais étant à la fois des Louis XIV couplé à des marchands génois avec leur immense empire colonial. Chaque épopée économique correspond à un cycle (Kondratiev) de longue durée. Ca s'en va, ça revient, comme disait Cloclo. Les Etats-Unis étant le dernier cycle occidental. Arrighi, dans son dernier livre, Adam Smith à Pékin, nous présentera le passage du cycle américain vers le cycle chinois, reprenant et continuant les analyses de ce livre.

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