The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-economy in the Sixteenth Century - Softcover

Wallerstein, Immanuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0127859217 ISBN 13: 9780127859217

Publisher: Academic Press Inc, 1976

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"...one of the important books of the year....all are sure to agree that Wallerstein has written a most impressive book."
--THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"This is an exciting and highly intelligent book...Wallerstein has produced a splendid stimulant to our historical imagination, and deserves a wide readership."
--HISTORY
"[This] is a visionary work...this may be one of the most important theoretical statements about development since the time of Max Weber."
--CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY
"...Wallerstein has provided what can only be called a major work of analytical and synthetic sociological history...Wallerstein's work is indispensable to those who wish to understand the background from which the contemporary world has emerged."
--POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Press Inc
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0127859217
• ISBN 13: 9780127859217
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 424