Table of Contents

Introduction 1. World Empires 2. Crisis and Revolution in Medieval Europe 3. Reformation and Expansion 4. The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century 5. The Rise of Hegemony 6. The Discovery of 'The West' 7. An Epoch of Wars and Revolutions 8. The Bourgeois Empire 9. Imperialism 10. The Crisis of Hegemony 11. The Change of Hegemony 12. Imperialism without an Empire: The United States Conclusion

About the Author

Boris Kagarlitsky is Director of the Institute of Globalization and Social Movements in Moscow and a Fellow in the Institute for Comparative Political Studies, the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was a political prisoner under Brezhnev and latterly has been an adviser to the Chair of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia.

Reviews

'[A] good example of current Marxist scholarship.Summing Up: Recommended. Undergraduate and graduate social science students.' --S. Prisco III, Stevens Institute of Technology, CHOICE