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University of California Press
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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.

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  1. Cover
  2. p. 1
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
  2. pp. 2-7
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-9
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  1. List of Illustrations
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xi-xii
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  1. Prologue to the 2011 Edition
  2. pp. xiii-xxvii
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  1. INTRODUCTION: CRISIS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY?
  2. pp. 2-11
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  1. 1. THE B-PHASE
  2. pp. 12-35
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  1. 2. DUTCH HEGEMONY IN THE WORLD ECONOMY
  2. pp. 36-73
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  1. 3. STRUGGLE IN THE CORE—PHASE I: 1651–1689
  2. pp. 74-127
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  1. 4. PERIPHERIES IN AN ERA OF SLOW GROWTH
  2. pp. 128-177
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  1. 5. SEMIPHERIPHERIES AT THE CROSSROADS
  2. pp. 178-243
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  1. 6. STRUGGLE IN THE CORE—PHASE II: 1689–1763
  2. pp. 244-289
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 290-349
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 350-370
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