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), Studies in Social Discontinuity (1989)
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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.Tags
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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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- American Revolution (1775 ∙ 1783); French Revolution (1789)
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