Court’s Reviews > The World and a Very Small Place in Africa: A History of Globalization in Niumi, the Gambia > Status Update

“They were called world systems not necessarily because the involved people over the entire world—indeed, only the world system in place since the sixteenth century has done so—but because they involved people living in separate political units beyond the recognized boundaries of states, beyond empires, or even what we have tended to call civilizations”

Summing up Wallerstein better than Wallerstein