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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: 440
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
June 10, 2011
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520267572
Format: Paperback
"A tour de force that brings together and makes sense of a wealth of diverse historical studies which often seem to contradict each other...an extremely formidable achievement."
"A heroic and impressive achievement. . . . an exhilarating and satisfying book. . . . it explains more convincingly and sympathetically than anything I have read hitherto the actual process of economic and social development on a European-world scale."
"A remarkable book. The author has a theory and uses it to explain the structure and course of public events in Europe and its trans-oceanic annexes in the sixteenth century. The effect is dazzling and dizzying."
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
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
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