Immanuel Wallerstein

The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century
The Modern World-System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600–1750
The Modern World-System III: The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730s-1840s
The Modern World-System IV: Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789-1914
World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction