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 IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrologue to the 2011 EditionIntroduction: Crisis of the seventeenth century?1. The b-phase2. Dutch hegemony in the world economy3. Struggle in the core—phase i: 1651–16894. Peripheries in an era of slow growth5. Semipheripheries at the crossroads6. Struggle in the core—phase ii: 1689–1763BibliographyIndex

"However one casts up the balance-sheet on Wallerstein’s second volume, his effort commands respect and justifies interest in the volumes to follow."

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 IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrologue to the 2011 EditionIntroduction: Crisis of the seventeenth century?1. The b-phase2. Dutch hegemony in the world economy3. Struggle in the core—phase i: 1651–16894. Peripheries in an era of slow growth5. Semipheripheries at the crossroads6. Struggle in the core—phase ii: 1689–1763BibliographyIndex

"However one casts up the balance-sheet on Wallerstein’s second volume, his effort commands respect and justifies interest in the volumes to follow."

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 IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrologue to the 2011 EditionIntroduction: Crisis of the seventeenth century?1. The b-phase2. Dutch hegemony in the world economy3. Struggle in the core—phase i: 1651–16894. Peripheries in an era of slow growth5. Semipheripheries at the crossroads6. Struggle in the core—phase ii: 1689–1763BibliographyIndex

"However one casts up the balance-sheet on Wallerstein’s second volume, his effort commands respect and justifies interest in the volumes to follow."