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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828238303321

Autore

Wallerstein Immanuel Maurice <1930->

Titolo

The Modern World-System . III : : The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730s-1840s [[electronic resource] /] / Immanuel Wallerstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-27773-5

9786613277732

0-520-94859-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (391 p.)

Collana

Studies in social discontinuity

Disciplina

303.4

330.940253

Soggetti

Capitalism - Europe - History

Economic history - 1600-1750

Economic history - 1750-1918

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 -- PROLOGUE TO THE 2011 EDITION -- 1. INDUSTRY AND BOURGEOISIE -- 2. STRUGGLE IN THE CORE -PHASE III: 1763-1815 -- 3. THE INCORPORATION OF VAST NEW ZONES INTO THE WORLD-ECONOMY: 1750-1850 -- 4. THE SETTLER DECOLONIZATION OF THE AMERICAS: 1763-1833 -- 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.