The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth CenturyImmanuel 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. |
Contents
ON THE STUDY OF SOCIAL CHANGE | 2 |
1 MEDIEVAL PRELUDE | 14 |
C 14501640 | 66 |
3 THE ABSOLUTE MONARCHY AND STATISM | 132 |
THE FAILURE OF EMPIRE | 164 |
CLASSFORMATION AND INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE | 224 |
PERIPHERY VERSUS EXTERNAL ARENA | 300 |
7 THEORETICAL REPRISE | 346 |
Bibliography | 358 |
Index | 387 |
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