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The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century

by Immanuel Wallerstein · 1975

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An examination of the beginnings and early conditions of the European economic system elucidates the social effects of division of labor, class-formation, and international commerce.

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