The Modern World System by Immanuel Wallerstein

The Modern World System by Immanuel Wallerstein

I can say without hesitation that this is the finest book of analytic history that I have read in the past ten years. That Europe had formed a world-economy around herself historians knew. But only in general. What they had never thought about with the keenness and intelligence of I. Wallerstein's thought is that this entity provides a new framework for the subject of European history, that it is compelling, a new explanation, a new classification, indeed a revolutionary one, of received knowledge and current thought.

--Fernand Braudel, author of The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip I

It isn't just history or economics or sociology or political science. It is all of these in combination and thus places all of these fields on a new plane of understanding, It is a book that people will have to deal with, argue with, cite, learn by in order to make their own points.In sum, this is a most impressive work. I can hardly wait for the other volumes.

--Eric R. Wolf, author of Europe and the People without History

Immanuel Wallerstein is a senior research scholar in the department of sociology at Yale University and director emeritus of the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University. He is also a resident researcher at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris. His many books include The Modern World-System and Historical Capitalism. The New Press has published After Liberalism, The Decline of American Power, and a collection of his works, The Essential Wallerstein. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, and Paris, France.

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Title	The Modern World System
Author	Immanuel Wallerstein
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Publisher	Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Year published	1997-08-14
Number of pages	410
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