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Introduction: Why unthink? Part 1 The social sciences - from genesis tobifurcation: the French Revolution as a world-historical event; crisis- the world-economy, the movements and the ideologies. Part 2 Theconcept of development: the Industrial Revolution - cui bono?; economictheories and historical disparities of development; societaldevelopment or development of the world-system?; the Myrdal legacy -racism and underdevelopment as dilemmas; development - lodestar orillusion? Part 3 Concepts of time and space: a comment on epistemology- what is Africa?; does India exist?; the inventions of timespacerealities. Part 4 Revisiting Marx: Marx and underdevelopment; Marxismsas utopias - evolving ideologies. Part 5 Revisiting Braudel: FernandBraudel, historian, "homme de la conjoncture"; capitalism - the enemyof the market?; Braudel on capitalism, or everything upside down;beyond "annales"? Part 6 World-systems analysis as unthinking:historical systems as complex systems; call for a debate about theparadigm; a theory of economic history in place of economic history?;world-systems analysis - the second phase.