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The modern world-system. I, Capitalist agriculture and the origins of the European world-economy in the sixteenth century
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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...
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.
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- Creator
- Immanuel Wallerstein
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (441 p.)
- ISBNs
- 1283277719, 9786613277718, 0520948572, 0520267575
- OCLC
- ocn730151899, ocn868834831, on1027522947
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- QUOTATION CREDITS -- PROLOGUE TO THE 2011 EDITION -- INTRODUCTION: ON THE STUDY OF SOCIAL CHANGE -- 1. MEDIEVAL PRELUDE -- 2. THE NEW EUROPEAN DIVISION OF LABOR: C. 1450-1640 -- 3. THE ABSOLUTE MONARCHY AND STATISM -- 4. FROM SEVILLE TO AMSTERDAM! THE FAILURE OF EMPIRE -- 5. THE STRONG CORE-STATES! CLASS-FORMATION AND INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE -- 6. THE EUROPEAN WORLD-ECONOMY! PERIPHERY VERSUS EXTERNAL ARENA -- 7. THEORETICAL REPRISE -- Bibliography -- Index