Longue Durée and World-Systems Analysis

Richard E. Lee is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the editor of Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge, I: Determinism; Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge, II: Reductionism; and Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge, III: Dualism, all published by SUNY Press, and Life and Times of Cultural Studies: The Politics and Transformation of the Structures of Knowledge. He is also the coeditor, with Immanuel Wallerstein, of Overcoming the Two Cultures: Science versus the Humanities in the Modern World-System.

• IntroductionRichard E. LeeThe Order of Historical Time: The Longue Durée and Micro-HistoryDale TomichHistory and Geography: Braudel’s "Extreme Longue Durée" as Generics? Peter J. TaylorDutch Capitalism and the Europe’s Great Frontier: The Baltic in the  Ecological Revolution of the Long Seventeenth Century Jason W. MooreThe Semiproletarian Household over the Longue Durée of the Modern World-SystemWilma A. DunawayIn the Short Run Are We All Dead? A Political Ecology of the Development Climate Philip McMichaelThe Longue Durée and the Status of "Superstructures"Richard E. LeeNomads and Kings: State Formation in Asia over the Longue Durée, 1250–1700Ravi Arvind PalatLong-Term Problems for the Longue Durée in the Social Sciences Eric MielantsJournalism, History, and Eurocentrism: Longue Durée and the Immediate in Braudel and WallersteinJosé da Mota LopesAppendixHistory and the Social Sciences: The Longue DuréeFernand BraudelIndex