William G Martin

Making Waves charts many of the clusters, waves, and instances of global social movements since 1750, effectively analyzing their development and evolution, as well as influence on the simultaneously developing capitalist world economy. Informative and insightful, though reading much like a history textbook at times, Making Waves provides a thorough overview of these movements, their interaction with (often through their opposition to) dominant economic and political power structures, and how this has shaped the possible outcomes for future movements and the capitalist system itself.… (mer)