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 Edition1. Industry and bourgeoisie2. Struggle in the core—phase iii: 1763–18153. The incorporation of vast new zones intothe world-economy: 1750–18504. The settler decolonization of the Americas: 1763–1833BibliographyIndex

"A work in the grand historical tradition...bold in its thrust....many readers will find this a contentious and unsettling work. But it is contentious and unsettling in ways healthful for the normal practice of economic history."

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 Edition1. Industry and bourgeoisie2. Struggle in the core—phase iii: 1763–18153. The incorporation of vast new zones intothe world-economy: 1750–18504. The settler decolonization of the Americas: 1763–1833BibliographyIndex

"A work in the grand historical tradition...bold in its thrust....many readers will find this a contentious and unsettling work. But it is contentious and unsettling in ways healthful for the normal practice of economic history."

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 Edition1. Industry and bourgeoisie2. Struggle in the core—phase iii: 1763–18153. The incorporation of vast new zones intothe world-economy: 1750–18504. The settler decolonization of the Americas: 1763–1833BibliographyIndex

"A work in the grand historical tradition...bold in its thrust....many readers will find this a contentious and unsettling work. But it is contentious and unsettling in ways healthful for the normal practice of economic history."