1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457003603321

Autore

Wallerstein Immanuel Maurice <1930->

Titolo

The modern world-system . I Capitalist agriculture and the origins of the European world-economy in the sixteenth century [[electronic resource] /] / Immanuel Wallerstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-27771-9

9786613277718

0-520-94857-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (441 p.)

Collana

Studies in social discontinuity

Disciplina

330.9/4/022

Soggetti

Capitalism - Europe - History

Economic history - 16th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

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.