Creating A World Economy

Alan K. Smith is associate professor of history at Syracuse University.

• 1. Introduction 2. The Wider World 3. Medieval Europe 4. Overseas Expansion and Decline in the Mediterranean 5. Europe in Transition: Capitalism 6. Peripheries in the World Economy 7. Dependencies in the World Economy 8. The Colonial Powers and the World Economy in the Eighteenth Century 9. Revolution 10. Retrospect and Prospect