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.
This volume covers the period of rapid expansion and the rise of industrial capitalism in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Wallerstein examines the shifts in trade patterns, industrialization, and the intensification of the capitalist world-economy, focusing on how these developments led to major changes in the global political economy and the reinforcement of global inequalities.
Each volume of Wallerstein's work provides a detailed and complex analysis of different historical periods, contributing significantly to the understanding of how the modern world system, characterized by a complex network of economic, political, and social relations, came to be.
