Eric R. Wolf(1923--1999) had an illustrious and influential career as Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at H. Lehman College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York.

"The work of a powerful theoretical intelligence, but one informed by a lived sense of social realities."

• Foreword to the 2010 EditionPreface (1997)Preface (1982)Part One Connections1 Introduction2 The World in 14003 Modes of Production4 Europe, Prelude to ExpansionPart Two In Search of Wealth5 Iberians in America6 The Fur Trade7 The Slave Trade8 Trade and Conquest in the OrientPart Three Capitalism9 Industrial Revolution10 Crisis and Differentiation in Capitalism11 The Movement of Commodities12 The New LaborersAfterwordBibliographic NotesBibliographyIndex

Eric R. Wolf(1923--1999) had an illustrious and influential career as Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at H. Lehman College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York.

"The work of a powerful theoretical intelligence, but one informed by a lived sense of social realities."

• Foreword to the 2010 EditionPreface (1997)Preface (1982)Part One Connections1 Introduction2 The World in 14003 Modes of Production4 Europe, Prelude to ExpansionPart Two In Search of Wealth5 Iberians in America6 The Fur Trade7 The Slave Trade8 Trade and Conquest in the OrientPart Three Capitalism9 Industrial Revolution10 Crisis and Differentiation in Capitalism11 The Movement of Commodities12 The New LaborersAfterwordBibliographic NotesBibliographyIndex

Eric R. Wolf(1923--1999) had an illustrious and influential career as Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at H. Lehman College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York.

"The work of a powerful theoretical intelligence, but one informed by a lived sense of social realities."

• Foreword to the 2010 EditionPreface (1997)Preface (1982)Part One Connections1 Introduction2 The World in 14003 Modes of Production4 Europe, Prelude to ExpansionPart Two In Search of Wealth5 Iberians in America6 The Fur Trade7 The Slave Trade8 Trade and Conquest in the OrientPart Three Capitalism9 Industrial Revolution10 Crisis and Differentiation in Capitalism11 The Movement of Commodities12 The New LaborersAfterwordBibliographic NotesBibliographyIndex