Immanuel Wallerstein 
The Modern World-System III 
The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730s–1840s

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.

Table of Content

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Prologue to the 2011 Edition


1. Industry and bourgeoisie

2. Struggle in the core—phase iii: 1763–1815

3. The incorporation of vast new zones into

the world-economy: 1750–1850

4. The settler decolonization of the Americas: 1763–1833


Bibliography

Index

About the author

Immanuel Wallerstein (1930-2019) was Senior Research Scholar at Yale University and the former President of the International Sociological Association. He was the author of many books, including The Modern World-System, Volumes I-IV.