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The Modern World-System — reading order

Immanuel Wallerstein

  1. The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century (1974)
  2. The Modern World-System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600-1750 (1980)
  3. The Modern World-System III: The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730-1840s (1989)
  4. The Modern World-System IV: Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789-1914 (2011)
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1974–2011
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The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century
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  1. The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century
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  2. The Modern World-System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600-1750
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  3. The Modern World-System III: The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730-1840s
    The Modern World-System III: The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730-1840s1989Buy
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  4. The Modern World-System IV: Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789-1914
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