Introduction: Scholarship and Reality, Immanuel Wallerstein; Part I The
Capitalist World-Economy: From Past to Future; Chapter 1 Globalism or
Apartheid on a Global Scale?, Samir Amin; Chapter 2 Through the Obstacle(s)
and on to Global Socialism, Christopher Chase-Dunn; Chapter 3 Europe: The
Asymptote of Political Integration, Bart Tromp; Chapter 4 Using, Producing,
and Replacing Life?: Alchemy as Theory and Practice in Capitalism, Claudia
von Werlhof; Chapter 5 Hegemony and Antisystemic Movements, Giovanni
Arrighi; Chapter 6 Present Systemic Trends and Antisystemic Movements,
Pablo González Casanova; Chapter 7 Proletarian Internationalism: A Long
View and Some Speculations, Marcel van der Linden; Part II Structures of
Knowledge and Constructed Knowledge in the Modern World; Chapter 8
Commonality and Divergence of World Intellectual Structures in the Second
Millennium CE, Randall Collins; Chapter 9 Africa and African Studies,
Mahmood Mamdani; Chapter 10 A Critique of Lazy Reason: Against the Waste of
Experience, Boaventura de Sousa Santos; Chapter 11 Continuing American
Provincialism and the Rest of the World, Janet L. Abu-Lughod; Chapter 12
Does One Represent Reality or Does One Explain It?, Maurice Aymard; Chapter
13 The Scholarly Mainstream and Reality: Are We at a Turning Point?,
Immanuel Wallerstein; Chapter 14 The North Atlantic Universals,
Michel-Rolph Trouillot;
