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.
Tabella dei contenuti
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
Circa l’autore
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.
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