The Modern World System. II Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy 1600-1750 Synopsis
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.
