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

The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi

The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

Karl Polanyi

The Perspective of the World by Fernand Braudel

The Perspective of the World

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

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

The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times by Giovanni Arrighi

The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times

Giovanni Arrighi

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph Schumpeter

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

Joseph Schumpeter

Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 by Janet L. Abu-Lughod

Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350

Janet L. Abu-Lughod

The Modern World-System III: The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730-1840s by Immanuel Wallerstein

The Modern World-System III: The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730-1840s

The Wheels of Commerce by Fernand Braudel

The Wheels of Commerce

Lineages of the Absolutist State by Perry Anderson

Lineages of the Absolutist State

Perry Anderson

Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism by Perry Anderson

Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism

Perry Anderson

The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View by Ellen Meiksins Wood

The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View

Ellen Meiksins Wood

The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm

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Europe and the people without history by Eric R. Wolf

Europe and the people without history

Eric R. Wolf

The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-industrial Europe by T. H. Aston

The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-industrial Europe

T. H. Aston

The Modern World-System IV: Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789-1914 by Immanuel Wallerstein

The Modern World-System IV: Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789-1914

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are So Rich and Some So Poor by David S. Landes

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are So Rich and Some So Poor

David S. Landes

A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey

A Brief History of Neoliberalism

David Harvey

Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance by Lisa Jardine

Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance

Lisa Jardine

The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Vol. 1 by Fernand Braudel

The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Vol. 1

World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction by Immanuel Wallerstein

Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams

Capitalism and Slavery

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World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction

Industry and Empire: From 1750 to the Present Day by Eric Hobsbawm

Industry and Empire: From 1750 to the Present Day

Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx

Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy

Karl Marx

The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism by Maurice Dobb

The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism

Maurice Dobb

Growth in a Traditional Society: The French Countryside, 1450-1815 by Philip T. Hoffman

Growth in a Traditional Society: The French Countryside, 1450-1815

Philip T. Hoffman

The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy by Kenneth Pomeranz

The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy

Kenneth Pomeranz

The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph by Albert O. Hirschman

The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph

Albert O. Hirschman

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World

Barrington Moore

The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History by Douglass C. North

The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History

Douglass C. North

Capital, Vol. 1: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx

Capital, Vol. 1: A Critique of Political Economy

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ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age by Andre Gunder Frank

ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age

Andre Gunder Frank

The Rise of the Atlantic Economies by Ralph Davis

The Rise of the Atlantic Economies

Ralph Davis

The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson

The Making of the English Working Class

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The Age of Capital, 1848-1875 by Eric Hobsbawm

The Age of Capital, 1848-1875

Capital, Vol. 2: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx

The Limits to Capital by David Harvey

The Limits to Capital

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Capital, Vol. 2: A Critique of Political Economy

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Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz

Globalization and Its Discontents

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Before the Industrial Revolution: European Economy and Society, 1000–1700 by Carlo M. Cipolla

Before the Industrial Revolution: European Economy and Society, 1000–1700

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Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Ilʹič Lenin

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The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism by David Harvey

The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism

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Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1990 by Charles Tilly

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Historical Capitalism with Capitalist Civilization by Immanuel Wallerstein

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A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World by William J. Bernstein

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History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics by Georg Lukács

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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism: A Historical Study by R. H. Tawney

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The first volume of a historical sociology of the past 500 years of the world economy. This volume gets weaker toward the end.

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Wallerstein studied at Columbia University, where he received his Ph.D. in sociology in 1959. His work has focused primarily on what he calls "world systems theory," which deals with the socioeconomic dynamics of global dependence and interdependence. As Wallerstein sees it, the wealthy nations of the world control and manipulate the destinies of show more weaker nations and keep them dependent. The world system is an outcome of historic global, political, and ideological forces leading to Western hegemony. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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