Sugar, Slavery, and Creative Destruction: World-Magnates and “Coreification” in the Longue-Durée
Recent literature in the world-systems perspective has refocused attention on questions of ‘core’ and ‘periphery’ in historical capitalism, yet rarely critically examines the underlying assumptions regarding these zones. Drawing on a developing dataset on the world’s wealthiest individuals (the Worl...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2019-09-01
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Series: | Journal of World-Systems Research |
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Online Access: | http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/893 |