Table of Contents

PREFACE (1997)
PREFACE (1982)
PART ONE: CONNECTIONS
Introduction
The World in 1400
Modes of Production
Europe, Prelude to Expansion
PART TWO: IN SEARCH OF WEALTH
Iberians in America
The Fur Trade
Trade and Conquest in the Orient
PART THREE: CAPITALISM
Industrial Revolution
Crisis and Differentiation in Capitalism
The Movement of Commodities
The New Laborers
AFTERWORD
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

About the Author

Eric R. Wolf (1923–1999) was Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, Herbert H. Lehman College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York.

Reviews

"Wolf's empirical knowledge is exceptionally wide. . . . He relies on a skillful selection of phenomena in time and space that are reasonably representative of the totality. . . . The book is very well written and with a profoundly human touch."--Magnus Morner, "Ethnos