How Fast the Wind?: Southern Africa, 1975-2000

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Sergio Vieira, William G. Martin, Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein
Africa World Press, 1992 - History - 412 pages
Looks at the process of political change in Southern Africa and the resulting economic progress.
 

Contents

A Historical Development of the Region in the Context
3
The Conse
16
The Political Crisis and the Its Impact
31
B Regional Labor Flows
83
Corporate Capital in Southern Africa 98 886
98
Transport
133
South Africas Economic Trajectory South
165
The Region as a Zone of Geostrategical
197
Evolving ClassRace Stratification in
253
Historical Stratification by Race
293
Regional Prospects and Projects What
329
Sergio Vieira and Immanuel Wallerstein
367
Contributors
373
Index
399
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Wallerstein studied at Columbia University, where he received his Ph.D. in sociology in 1959. His work has focused primarily on what he calls "world systems theory," which deals with the socioeconomic dynamics of global dependence and interdependence. As Wallerstein sees it, the wealthy nations of the world control and manipulate the destinies of weaker nations and keep them dependent. The world system is an outcome of historic global, political, and ideological forces leading to Western hegemony.

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