List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Quotation Credits
Prologue to the 2011 Edition
Introduction: On the study of social change
1. Medieval prelude
2. The new European division of labor: c. 1450-1640
3. The absolute monarchy and statism
4. From Seville to Amsterdam: the failure of empire
5. The strong core-states: class-formation and international
commerce
6. The European world-economy: periphery versus external arena
7. Theoretical reprise
Bibliography
Index
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.
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