Immanuel Wallerstein (1930-2019) was Senior Research Scholar at Yale University and the former President of the International Sociological Association. He was the author of many books, including The Modern World-System, Volumes I-IV.

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Acknowledgments
Prologue to the 2011 Edition
1. Industry and bourgeoisie
2. Struggle in the core-phase iii: 1763-1815
3. The incorporation of vast new zones into
the world-economy: 1750-1850
4. The settler decolonization of the Americas: 1763-1833
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Index

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.