Wallerstein - The Modern World-System I

THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM I

Allegory of Trade, woodcut by Jobst Amman (15391591), who lived in Nuremberg. He was one of the Little Masters. This bottom detail illustrated the house of a merchant of Nuremberg, still a flourishing center of trans-European trade.

Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European
World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century

WITH A NEW PROLOGUE

Immanuel Wallerstein

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Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice, Date.

The modern world-system.

(Studies in social discontinuity)

Bibliography: p.

1. EuropeEconomic conditions. 2. Economic history
16th century. 3. Capitalism. I. Title. II. Series.
HC45.W35 330.94022 73-5318
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The illustrations were selected and annotated with the assistance of Sally Spector.

It is always difficult to list the immediate sources of ideas and assistancefrom authors, colleagues, and studentsin the conception and writing of a book, and particularly so in a book that pretends to synthesize other peoples empirical work. The great risk is neglect.

In the case of this volume the two authors whose voluminous writings most immediately inspired me on the path I finally decided to go were Fernand Braudel and Marian Malowist.

Once I had written a draft, Fernand Braudel read it carefully and gave me encouragement at a moment when I needed reassurance. Charles Tilly also read it carefully, and by raising pertinent questions forced me to clarify my argument. This was particularly so concerning the role of state-power and absolutism in general, and its counterpoint with the phenomenon of banditry in particular. Douglas Dowd put me onto Frederic Lane for which I thank him, since Frederic Lane is very worth being put onto.

As for Terence Hopkins, my debt is to our twenty years of intellectual discussion and collaboration. There is no sentence that can summarize this debt.

This book was written during a years stay at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Countless authors have sung its praises. Aside from splendid surroundings, unlimited library and secretarial assistance, and a ready supply of varied scholars to consult at a moments notice, what the center offers is to leave the scholar to his own devices, for good or ill. Would that all men had such wisdom. The final version was consummated with the aid of a grant from the Social Sciences Grants Subcommittee of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research of McGill University.

Selections from Violet Barbour, Capitalism in Amsterdam in the Seventeenth Century, appearing on , are reprinted by permission of the University of Michigan Press. Copyright 1963 by the University of Michigan Press.

Selections appearing on from Jerome Blum, Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century (Copyright 1961 by Princeton University Press; Princeton paperback 1971), pp. 120-212, partly paraphrased. Reprinted by Permission of Princeton University Press.

Selections appearing on passim from Vols. I and II, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II by Fernand Braudel (about 2600 words passim). Originally published in France under the title La Mditerrane et le monde Mditerranen lpoque de Philippe II.

Librairie Armand Colin 1966.

English translation by Immanuel Wallerstein with special permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.

Selections appearing on , reprinted from Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West, by Georges Duby (Cynthia Postan, translator), by permission of the University of South Carolina Press.

Selections appearing on reprinted from Christopher Hill, Reformation to the Industrial Revolution, 1530-1780, Vol. II of The Pelican History of Britain, pp. 25, 26, 27, 28, 34, 65-66, 96, 101. Copyright Christopher Hill, 1967, 1969.

Selections appearing on from H. G. Koenigsberger, The Organization of Revolutionary Parties in France and the Netherlands During the Sixteenth Century, The Journal of Modern History, XXVII, 4, Dec. 1955, 335-351. Copyright by the University of Chicago Press. Reproduced by permission.

Selections appearing on by permission of the Cambridge University Press. Copyright 1968 by the Cambridge University Press.

Selections appearing on from R. S. Lopez, H. A. Miskimin, and Abraham Udovitch, England to Egypt, 1350-1500: Long-term Trends and Long-distance Trade, in M. A. Cook, ed., Studies in the Economic History of the Middle East from the Rise of Islam to the Present Day. (London: Oxford University Press, 1970). Reprinted by permission of the Oxford University Press and the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Selections appearing on reprinted from J. H. Parry, Transport and Trade Routes, in Cambridge Economic History of Europe, IV: E. E. Rich and C. Wilson, eds., The Economy of Expanding Europe in the 16th and 17th Centuries, by permission of the Cambridge University Press. Copyright 1967 by the Cambridge University Press.

Selections appearing on reprinted from M. M. Postan, The Trade of Medieval Europe: The North, in Cambridge Economic History of Europe, II: M. M. Postan and E. E. Rich, eds., Trade and Industry in the Middle Ages, by permission of the Cambridge University Press. Copyright 1952 by the Cambridge University Press.

Selections appearing on reprinted from E. E. Rich, Colonial Settlement and Its Labour Problems, in Cambridge Economic History of Europe, IV: E. E. Rich and C. H. Wilson, eds., The Economy of Expanding Europe in the 16th and 17th Centuries, by permission of the Cambridge University Press. Copyright 1967 by the Cambridge University Press.

Selections appearing on reprinted from Frank C. Spooner, The Economy of Europe 1559-1609, in New Cambridge Modern History, III: R. B. Wernham, ed., The Counter-Reformation and the Price Revolution, 1559-1610, by permission of the Cambridge University Press. Copyright 1968 by the Cambridge University Press.