THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM #1) - Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century (new Prologue!)

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. 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. An examination of the beginnings and early conditions of the European economic system elucidates the social effects of division of labor, class-formation, and international commerce. v. 1. Capitalist agriculture and the origins of the European world-economy in the sixteenth century v. 2. Mercantilism and the consolidation of the European world-economy, 1600-1750. African nationalists were determined to change the political structures within which they lived.