(P/B) THE MODERN WORLD SYSTEM I

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Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, "The Modern World-System", is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. (from the publisher)

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List οf Illustrations
Acknowledgments
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Prologue to the 2011 Edition
INTRODUCTION: ΟΝ THE STUDY OF SOCIAL CHANGE
1. MEDIEVAL PRELUDE
2. THE NEW EUROPEAN DIVISION OF LABOR: c. 1450-1640
3. THE ABSOLUTE MONARCHY ΑND STATISM
4. FROM SEVILLE ΤΟ AMSTERDAM: THE FAILURE OF EMPIRE
5. THE STRONG CORE-STATES: CLASS-FORMATION ΑΝD INTERNATIONAL
COMMERCE
6. THE EUROPEAN WORLD-ECONOMY: PERIPHERY VERSUS EXTERNAL ARENA
7. THEORETICAL REPRISE
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