"The past can be told as it truly is, not was. For recounting the past is a social act of the present done by men of the present and affecting the social system of the present."

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Jews from the United StatesPeople from New York CitySociologists from the United StatesSystems scientists
Original Language: English

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Wallerstein (1974) The modern world system capitalist agriculture and the origins of the European world economy in the sixteenth century. New York: Academic Press.