List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue to the 2011 Edition

Introduction: Crisis of the seventeenth century?
1. The b-phase
2. Dutch hegemony in the world economy
3. Struggle in the core—phase i: 1651–1689
4. Peripheries in an era of slow growth
5. Semipheripheries at the crossroads
6. Struggle in the core—phase ii: 1689–1763

Bibliography
Index

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.