Immanuel Wallerstein is Senior Research Scholar at Yale University and the former President of the International Sociological Association. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction and European Universalism: The Rhetoric of Power.

"However one casts up the balance-sheet on Wallerstein’s second volume, his effort commands respect and justifies interest in the volumes to follow."

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrologue to the 2011 EditionIntroduction: Crisis of the seventeenth century?1. The b-phase2. Dutch hegemony in the world economy3. Struggle in the core—phase i: 1651–16894. Peripheries in an era of slow growth5. Semipheripheries at the crossroads6. Struggle in the core—phase ii: 1689–1763BibliographyIndex

Immanuel Wallerstein is Senior Research Scholar at Yale University and the former President of the International Sociological Association. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction and European Universalism: The Rhetoric of Power.

"However one casts up the balance-sheet on Wallerstein’s second volume, his effort commands respect and justifies interest in the volumes to follow."

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrologue to the 2011 EditionIntroduction: Crisis of the seventeenth century?1. The b-phase2. Dutch hegemony in the world economy3. Struggle in the core—phase i: 1651–16894. Peripheries in an era of slow growth5. Semipheripheries at the crossroads6. Struggle in the core—phase ii: 1689–1763BibliographyIndex