The Modern World-System, volume 1: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century, With a New Prologue

441 Pages·2011·20.36 MB·English

by  Immanuel Wallerstein

THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM I
"Allegory of Trade," woodcut by Jobst Amman (1539—1591), who lived in Nuremberg. He was one of the "Little Masters." This bottom detail
illustrated the house of a merchant of Nuremberg, still a flourishing center of trans-European trade.
THE
MODERN WORLD-
SYSTEM I
Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European
World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century
WITH A NEW PROLOGUE
Immanuel Wallerstein
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Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice, Date.
The modern world-system.
(Studies in social discontinuity)
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1. Europe—Economic conditions. 2. Economic history—
16th century. 3. Capitalism. I. Title. II. Series.
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Quotation Credits xiii
Prologue to the 2011 Edition xvii
INTRODUCTION: ON THE STUDY OF SOCIAL CHANGE 2
1. MEDIEVAL PRELUDE 14
2. THE NEW EUROPEAN DIVISION OF LABOR! C. 1450-1640 66
3. THE ABSOLUTE MONARCHY AND STATISM 132
4. FROM SEVILLE TO AMSTERDAM! THE FAILURE OF EMPIRE 164
5. THE STRONG CORE-STATES! CLASS-FORMATION AND INTERNATIONAL
COMMERCE 224
6. THE EUROPEAN WORLD-ECONOMY! PERIPHERY VERSUS EXTERNAL ARENA 300
7. THEORETICAL REPRISE 346
Bibliography 358
Index 387
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FRONTISPIECE: "Allegory of Trade,"by Jobst Amman (1585-1586).
INTRODUCTION: "The Sack of Rome by Charles V." Illustration of
book published ca. 1535. London: British Museum
CHAPTER 1: "The Foxhunt'' by the Master of the Housebook
(between 1475-1490). Wolfegg (Schloss), Germany.
CHAPTER 2: "The Negroes having exhausted the metallic veins
had to be given work making sugar, " by Theodore
de Bry (1575). New York: The Rare Books Collec-
tion of the New York Public Library.
CHAPTER 3: "The Grand-Duke has the port of Livorno fortified,"
by Jacques Callot (between 1614-1620). Paris:
Bibliotheque Nationale.
CHAPTER 4: "Massacre of the Innocents," by Pieter Breughel,
the Elder (ca. 1565). Vienna: Kunsthistorisches
Museum.
CHAPTER 5: "Two Beggars Fighting," by Jacques Bellange (be-
tween 1612-1617). Washington, D. C.: National
Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection.
CHAPTER 6: "The (Dutch) fleet off Mozambique, and the cap-
ture of a (Portuguese) carrack near Goa."Illustra-
tion from a Journal (publ. 1651). Ithaca: Cornell
University Library.
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