Ebook: The Modern World-System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600–1750

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.