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This volume is not simply another general theory of world system. It is a theoretically and ethnographically informed collection of essays which opens up new qu

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This groundbreaking study dispels some of the old myths and conjectures concerning money and exchange, and opens up the way for the development of new approache

Foucalt deals with the emergence in the early 17th century of a new understanding of society and its relation to war.