Modern World-System I

Immanuel Wallerstein is Senior Research Scholar at Yale University and the former President of the International Sociological Association. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction and European Universalism: The Rhetoric of Power.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsQuotation CreditsPrologue to the 2011 EditionIntroduction: On the study of social change1. Medieval prelude2. The new European division of labor: c. 1450–16403. The absolute monarchy and statism4. From Seville to Amsterdam: the failure of empire5. The strong core-states: class-formation and internationalcommerce6. The European world-economy: periphery versus external arena7. Theoretical repriseBibliographyIndex

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