Immanuel Wallerstein 
The Modern World-System II 
Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600–1750

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.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Prologue to the 2011 Edition


Introduction: Crisis of the seventeenth century?

1. The b-phase

2. Dutch hegemony in the world economy

3. Struggle in the core—phase i: 1651–1689

4. Peripheries in an era of slow growth

5. Semipheripheries at the crossroads

6. Struggle in the core—phase ii: 1689–1763


Bibliography

Index

Despre autor

Immanuel Wallerstein (1930-2019) was Senior Research Scholar at Yale University and the former President of the International Sociological Association. He was the author of many books, including The Modern World-System, Volumes I-IV.