Immanuel Wallerstein is a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University and Director of the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University. Among his many books are The Modern World-System (three volumes); The End of the World as We Know It: Social Science for the Twenty-first Century; Utopistics: Or, Historical Choices of the Twenty-first Century; and Unthinking Social Science: The Limits of Nineteenth-Century Paradigms. He is the recipient of the American Sociological Association’s Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award and is a former president of the International Sociological Association.
Acknowledgments vii
To Start: Understanding the World in Which We Live ix
1. Historical Origins of World-Systems Analysis: From Social Science
Disciplines to Historical Social Sciences 1
2. The Modern World-System as a Capitalist World-Economy: Production,
Surplus-Value, and Polarization 23
3. The Rise of the States-System: Sovereign Nation-States, Colonies, and
the Interstate System 41
4. The Creation of a Geoculture: Ideologies, Social Movements, Social
Science 60
5. The Modern World-System in Crisis: Bifurcation, Chaos, and Choices 76
Glossary 91
Bibliographical Guide 101
Index 105
