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NEWSLETTERFernand Braudel Center

for the Study of Economies,Historical Systems, and Civilizations

State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York 13901

No. 2 Activities, 1977-78 August 1cH[?

1. The Seminar on Croup Formation and Group C~nflict in the Historical Develop-ment of the Hodem World-System continued its work on t!1e theme~ '!The Relation-ship of the Terms 'Proletarian' and 'BourReois' to Other Class/Occupational Cate-gories 1-7eUse. " The follmving TJa'Oers~vere offered.

November 2, 1977. Georges Haupt, Adjunct ProfessorBinghamton, and Director of the Centre d'Etudes surl'U.R.S.S. of the E.H.E.S.S., Paris, "In ~fuat Sensethe Russian Revolution a Proletarian Revolution?"'

of Sociology, S~TY-l'Est Euro'Oeen etand to ~fuat Degree Was

December 7, 1977. ¥2rta Petrusewicz, Research Associate, Fernand BraudelCenter, and member of the Department of Economic History, TYniversity ofCalabria, "Primary Accumulation and the Creation of a Rural Bourpeoisie/RuralProletariat in Nineteenth-Century Calabria!;

January 18, 197P.. Caglar Keyder, De'Oartment of Economics, Middle East Tech-nical University, Ankara, I;The Transition to Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century France"

February 1, 1978. Ervand Abrahamian, Department of History, CUNY-BaruchCollege, !:The Formation of the Proletari~t in t10dern Iran, 1941-l953~1

March 8, 1973. Perry ft~derson, Adjunct Professor of Sociolop-y, STnTY-Binghamton, and Editor, New Left Revie1:v, "The Role of the Proletariat inBour~eois Revolutions"

April 19, 1978. Giovanni Arrighi, AdjunctBinghamton, and Chair of the De'Oartment ofUniversity of Calabria, !'Tbe Stram~e Deathin Euro"J)e"

Professor of Sociology, Sl~rY-Sociology and Political Science,of the Industrial Proletariat

f!ay 3, 1978. Charles Freedeman, Denartment of History, ST~TY-Binp,hamton,!~A la recherche de 1a bourpeoisie fran<;aise!:

A set of the papers in mimeographed form (exce~t for that of Perry Anderson)

are available upon request for $3.00. ~foE":__~s__.?.~!_~_cheE.'

2. A number of other 'Oublic lectures and informal semin3r~ w~re offered thisyear under the aus"J)ices of the Center.

January 30, 1973. Cag1ar Keyder, Middle East Technical University, Ankara>liThe Ottoman Empire and the t.]or1d-EconomyH

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February 2, 1973. Ervand Abrahamian, CUNY-Baruch College, "The Causes ofthe Iranian Constitutional R.evolution of 19f'15-09"

February 8, 1978. Caglar Keyder, '~Peasants in 20th Century Turkey"

February 9, 1978. Caglar Keyder, "U.S. Hegemony or Euro-American ImperialistRivalry?"

February 10, 1978. Norman Birnbaum, Amherst College, I:Euro-Co!llI!lUnismCurrent Prospects"

February 27, 1978. Gabriel Warburg, Haifa University, '!Slavery and Labor inSudan, 1$398-1956:; and "Nationalism and Islam in the Sudan"

Harch 16, 1978. Rodney Hilton, University of Birmingham, "The Crisis ofthe 1!edieval Social Order"

l'farch 17, 1978. Rodney Hilton, t~Towns in Feudal Society"

~1arch 21, 1978. Gyorgi Ranki, Eungarian Academy of Sciences, "The Role ofthe' State in the European Periphery in the Nineteenth Century"

tfarch 23, 1978. Dr. Norbert Elias, author of The Civilizing Process,:tSocio-Historical Critique of the Concepts of Time and Space:'

3. The Center had in residence three VisitinR Research Associates during theyear.

lfarta Petrusewicz~ ~ept. of Economic Histor;, tJniversity of Calabria, September-December 1977.

Caglar Keyder, De~t. of Economics, Y-iddle East Technical University, Ankara,January-February 1978.

Nikolai Driachlov ~ Dept. of Historical ~.1aterialism, f.~OSCOt07State University(under the STnIY-~~oscow State University Exchange Prop-ram), February-April 1973.

4. The Center initiated a number of Research Workin~ ~roups. Three of the mostactive were':

a. Long Cycles of the World-Economy and the Social Division of LaborResearch Coordinators: Terence Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein

query as to the existence and measurem~~t of long cycles, the expJanations ofthe conjunctures» and thE:>conscquences in te-rnltt o£ th~ social dtvi.R:f.on of labor

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(that is, the continual reorganization of proouction ~rocesses on a world scale

in terms of geographical location and production relations).

b. Histo~ical Glossary of Concepts Relating to the World-SystemResearch Coordinator~ Cedric Robinson :

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_ Investigation of the new (and_revised) vocabulary-"of political economy which

_has- grown up with the evolution of the modern world::-system. The initial task

will be to establish basic criteria (socio-historical,- -etymological, and__episte-

mological) through which such an enquiry will -proceed. - -

c. Histories and Ecologies'ResearchCoordinator~ Neville Dyson-Hudson

Utilizing the diverse research traditions _-ofecolQgists (working in archae-

0101?Y' and ant;.hropology) and soc-io-economic historians, investigation of the eco-

system relationships of which world-systemS' themselves are a reflection.- -

5. The Center co-sponsored a colloquium AUBust 7~9, 1978 in Starnberg, FederalRepublic of Germany with-the Jdax-Planck-Institut zur Erforschunl! der Lebensbed-ingunge~ der wissenschaftlich-technischen Welt-and the Maison des Sciences de

l-'Homme. The topic of the colloquium was~ ~'Crises in the Cat>italist t-7orld-Economy: Past - and Present.I; The narticipants were~: --- . -

Herb Mdo (Jamaica) _ ~i:qd Dst~rud (Norway)SarnirAmin (IDEP?-Day.ar) Marta Petrusewicz (Italy)Perry Anderson (U.K.) Carlo ~oni (Italy)Giovanni Arrighi (Italy) Anibal Quijano (Peru)Amiya K. Bagchi (India) Claudio ~otelli (~taly)Solon Barraclough(RISD,Ge~eva) Dieter Senghaas (F.R.C~rmany) _

Maurice Broder (France) Jose Augustin Silva Michelena (Venezuela)Frederick Clairmonte (UNCTAD, Geneva) Hans Ulrich ~lehler (F.R. Germany)Ernest Feder (F.R. Germany) Nicole Bousquet: (Fernand Braudel Center)Andre Gunder Frank (U.K.) Terence HopY~ns (Fernand Braudel Center)Erich Jacoby (Sweden) Immanuel Wallerstein (FernandBraudel ~enter)Caglar Keyder (Turkey) ~aurice Aymard (}f..aisondes Sciences de I'Ho1lm1e)Michael Kidron (TJ.K.) Clemens Heller (Maison des Sciences de I'Homme)Alberto t-~rtinelli (Italy) Folker FroDel (~Bx-Planck-Institut)Hans Medick (F.R. ('..ermany) JiirgenHeinrichs e~ax-Planck-Institut)Ramkrishna Mukherjee (India) Otto Kreye (~ax-Planck-Institut)

The Center presented a paper on~ nEurope and the International Division of Labor -Past and Present.t. This -is_a product of the Working Group on Lon~ Cycles of the

World-Economy and the SociBl Division of Labor. Copies of thisnaoer are

available upon request.

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6. "On, April IS, 1978, the Center sponsored a one-day preparation meeting for acolloquium on "Patterns of the Labor,Force in Southern Africa 1800-1940.11 Thiswas a follow-up to a conference on ':Agrarian Labor in Africa l380-l92S!1 held atColumbia University on' April 7, 1977." At the April, 1973 meeting, tWo draftpa~ers were presented by Marcia Wright ~ :'Production ¥.1xes in Zimbabwe, 1800-1940:!~ and William Martin and Immanuel Wallerstein ~ "The Household and theAfrican ""Labor 'Force in Southern 'Africa;' ,A Research Proposal. ,. "'These papersare now being revised and will serve 'as basic documents 'for the larger colloquium

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7. The Southern Africa Project, co-sponsored by our Center, the Africana Studiesand Research Center of Cornell University, and the Centro 'de Estudos Africanosof the Universidade de Edouard Mondlane, in Mozambique, is issuing a series ofpamphlets on the contemporary situation in southern Africa. The first, now out,is by Allen Isaacman, "A Luta Continua ~ ' Creating 'a New Society in Mozam'bique."It is available 'for $2.00. A form is attached. ' The second, due to a~pear bySeptember IS, is by Sean Gervasi, r:The United States and the Arms EmbargoAgainst South Africa~ Evidence, Denial, and Refutation." '

8. At ,the request of the Governor of the State of New York, the Center prepareda report on ~1.ibraries and Our Civilizations" by Immanuel Wallerstein and John,Stephens. The report iS'now available in printed form, issued by'the Governor'sComndssion on Libraries. ,A,limited number of copies are available 'from the'Center.

9. The Center agreed to be ~n ~s~ciated" Institution of the "Project' on Socio-Cultural Comparative Evaluation of ,Development Alternatives in ,a Changing World"of the United nations University. 'The Director attended a Human and SocialDevelopment Program Seminar in l1exico City on ~lovember 6-11, 1977.

10. The monograph series, Studies in Modern Capitalism, a joint enterprise ofthe Center and the ~~ison des Sciences de 1 'Homme , published by Cambridge

JJniversity Press, is releasing its first volumes this 'coming "year. A fullannouncement is attached. '

11. The, '

containstable of

double issue of Review, I, 3/4, Winter/Spring 1973, has appeared. Itthe papers and discussion of our Inaugural Conference in 11ay, 1977. The~ontents of this issue and of 11,1 and 11,2 are attached.

12. The Center is happy,to announce the appointment of ElizaQeth IfcLean Petrasas a full-time Research Associate as of September 1, 1978. MS. Petras has beenconducting research, on the differential effects of cross-national labor migrationon core and periphery, with a focus on emigration,fro~ the Caribbean.

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SERIES: STUDIES IN ~10DERNCAPITALISM

The Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems,

and Civilizations and the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme have launched a joint

enterprise, under the title Studies in Modern Capitalism/Etudes sur Ie capitalisme

moderne. The series is published by Cambridge University Press. The Inter-national Editorial Board is composed of Maurice Ayroard, Jacques Revel, ImmanuelWallerstein.

The series is devoted to an attempt to comprehend capitalism as a world-

system. It will include monographs, collections of essays, and colloquia

around specific themes, written by historians and social scientists united bya common concern for the study of large-scale, long-term social structure andsocial chan~e.

The initial titles are the following:

1) Immanuel Wallerstein, The Capitalist World-Economy (October 1978)

2) Pierre Bourdieu, Algeria 1960: The Disenchantment of the World (October 1978)

3) Andre Gunder Frank, Mexican Agriculture 1521-1630. Transformation of

the Mode of Production (January 1979)

4) Capitalisme hollandais et capita1isme mondiale (expected 1980)

5) Le patronat de la seconde industrialisation (expected 1980)

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State University of New York

Binghamton, ~.Y. 13901

Contents of REVIEW

Vol. I, No. 3/4, Winter/Spring 1978Special double issue on '~The Imr>act of the Anna1es School" on the ~ocia1 Sciences':

IMMAlmEL 1<1ALLERSTEIN Anna1es as Resistance

JACQUES REVEL The Anna1es: Continuities and Discontinuities

TRAIAN STOIANOVICH Social History ~ Perspectiveof the Anna1es ParadigmHAURICE A"D!ARD Im~act of the Annales School in ~!editerranean Countries

HALIL I11ALCIK Impact of the Anna1es School on Ottoman Studies and New Findings

KRYSZTOF POMIAN Impact of the Annales School in Eastern Europe

ALFRED DUBUC The Influence of the Annales Scbool in QuebecPETER BUP~ Reflections on the Historical Revolution in France.. The Annales

School. and British Social HistoryERIC J. HOBSBA~?:1 Comments

RICHARD Ai.'IDREWS Some Implications of the Annales School and Its 1fethods for a

Revision of Historical Writing About the United StatesH.L. WESSELING The Annales School and the Writing of Contemporary HistoryANDRE BURGlf.D&RE The New Anna1es: A Redefinition of the Late 1960's

CHARLES TILLY Anthropology, History, and the AnnalesGEORGE HUPPERT The Annales School Before the Annales~1O~.AN BIRNBAUM The Annales Sc I'x>ol and Social TheoryFERNAND BRAUDEL En guise de conclusion

Vol. II, No.1, Summer 1978

GEORGESHAUPT Why the History of Working-Class ?!ovements?SIDNEY W. ?1INTZ Was the Plantation Slave a Proletarian?PAULA BEIGUELMAN The Destruction of ?f...odern Slavery: A Theoretical IssueM.I. FI\~~EY Empire in the Graeco-Roman WorldH.R. STAHL Theories de C.C. Gherea sur les lois de la penetrationdu capitalisme

dans les "pays retardataires"DA.~IEL CHIROT A Romanian Prelude to Contemporary Debates About DevelopmentKATHLEEN GOUGH Agrarian Relations in Soutbeast India, 1750-1976

Vol. II, No.2, Fall 197~

JONATHAN FRIEDMAN Crises in Theory and Transformations of tbe World-EconomyEFL~ST LABROUSSE A View of the Allocation of Agricultural Expansion Among

Social Classes . "

NANCY FITCH The Demographic and Economic Effects of Seventeenth Century Wars~The Case of tbe Bourbonnais, France

MIKE DAVIS "Fordisml! in Crisis: A review 0.£ M:lcho.1 Ag1.:let td ..8 Regulation etcrises~ L'experience des Etats-Unis

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