The modern world-system / Immanuel Wallerstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice, 1930-2019.

Series:

Studies in social discontinuity

Studies in social discontinuity.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history--16th century.

Economic history.

Capitalism.

Europe--Economic conditions.

Europe.

Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Academic Press, 1974-<c1989 >

Contents:

[v.1]. Capitalist agriculture and the origins of the European world-economy in the sixteenth century

Medieval prelude

New European division of labor: c.1450-1640

Absolute Monarchy and Statism

From Seville to Amsterdam: the failure of Empire

Strong core-states: class-formation and international commerce

European world-economy: periphery versus external arena

Theoretical reprise

v. 2. Mercantilism and the consolidation of the European world-economy, 1600-1750

The B-Phase

Dutch hegemony in the world-economy

Struggle in the core

phase I: 1651-1689

Peripheries in an era of slow growth

Semiperipheries at the crossroads

Struggle in the core-phase II: 1689-1763

The v. 3. The second era of great expansion of the Capitalist world-economy, 1730-1840s

Industry and bourgeoisie

Struggle in the core-phase III: 1763-1815

Incorporation of vast new zones into the world-economy: 1750-1850

Settler decolonization of the Americas: 1763-1833

[v.] 4. Centrist liberalism triumphant, 1789-1914.

v. 3. The second era of great expansion of the capitalist world economy, 1730-1840s

Notes:

Includes bibliographies.

ISBN:

0127859209

OCLC:

34101312