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Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Price: $36.95
Pages: 390
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
10 June 2011
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520267596
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
"A work in the grand historical tradition...bold in its thrust....many readers will find this a contentious and unsettling work. But it is contentious and unsettling in ways healthful for the normal practice of economic history."
Immanuel Wallerstein (1930-2019) was Senior Research Scholar at Yale University and the former President of the International Sociological Association. He was the author of many books, including The Modern World-System, Volumes I-IV.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue to the 2011 Edition
1. Industry and bourgeoisie
2. Struggle in the core—phase iii: 1763–1815
3. The incorporation of vast new zones into
the world-economy: 1750–1850
4. The settler decolonization of the Americas: 1763–1833
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Prologue to the 2011 Edition
1. Industry and bourgeoisie
2. Struggle in the core—phase iii: 1763–1815
3. The incorporation of vast new zones into
the world-economy: 1750–1850
4. The settler decolonization of the Americas: 1763–1833
Bibliography
Index