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World-System Holism and Colonial Brazilian Agriculture: A Critical Case Analysis

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John R. Hall
John R. Hall*
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University of Missouri at Columbia
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Within the last two decades, theories about world systems have played a decisive role in shifting the boundaries of discourse on long-term social change. The triumph of world-system analysis was nearly a “bloodless coup”: few scholars were terribly anxious to defend the theoretical bastion of modernization theory that it supplanted; at best they reinterpreted the old theory within the new framework (for example, Rostow, 1975, 1978; Parsons 1977, 213; Moore 1979).

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Latin American Research Review , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , 1984 , pp. 43 - 69
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Copyright © 1984 by Latin American Research Review

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A revised version of a paper presented at the 1981 meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association in Portland, Oregon. The research was funded in part by a grant from the Research Council of the Graduate School, University of Missouri-Columbia. I wish to thank Randa Ferreira, Creonice Lawson, and Angela DeSilva for their contributions to the research and George Primov, Guenther Roth, Kathleen Ritter, Gary Hamilton, David Zaret, Terry Haru, and the anonymous reviewers of this essay for comments that have been helpful in revising it. I alone take responsibility for the result.

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