Chapter-Related Readings

Regional economies and politics before the age of European exploration and the capitalist world economy.

Abu-Lughod, J. L.. (1989). Before European Hegemony : The World System A. D. 1250-1350.. New York: Oxford University Press.

How core nations control finances and power in the modern world system.

Arrighi, G.. (1994). The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times.. New York: Verso.

The role of the masses in the history of capitalism.

Braudel, F.. (1973). Capitalism and Material Life: 1400--1800.. London: Fontana.

On the history of capitalism and the role of trade from precapitalist mercantilism to the present.

Braudel, F.. (1982). Civilization and Capitalism, 15th--18th Century. Volume II: The Wheels of Commerce.. New York: HarperCollins.

On the emergence of the world capitalist economy; case histories of European countries and various areas of the rest of the world.

Braudel, F.. (1992). Civilization and Capitalism, 15th--18th Century. Volume III: The Perspective of the World.. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Describes how Columbus's voyages opened the way for a major exchange of people, resources, and ideas as the Old and New Worlds were forever joined together.

Crosby, A. W., Jr.. (1972). The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492.. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

An ecological approach to expansion and conquest in world history.

Diamond, J. M.. (1997). Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.. New York: W. W. Norton.

Culture conflicts during European territorial expansion.

Fagan, B. M.. (1998). Clash of Cultures. 2nd ed.. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira.

Urbanization, globalization, and indigenous peoples.

Hall, T. D., ed.. (1999). A World-System Reader: New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology.. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Social systems, social change, and economic history in the context of world-system theory.

Kardulias, P. N.. (1999). World-Systems Theory in Practice: Leadership, Production, and Exchange.. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

The nature of peasant life styles and subsistence patterns within the modern world system.

Kearney, M.. (1996). Reconceptualizing the Peasantry: Anthropology in Global Perspective.. Boulder, CO: Westview.

The place of sugar in the formation of the modern world system.

Mintz, S.. (1985). Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History.. New York: Viking Penguin.

Useful review of world-system theory and developments.

Shannon, T. R.. (1996). An Introduction to the World-System Perspective, 2nd ed.. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

The origins of the capitalist world economy; a classic work.

Wallerstein, I. M.. (1974). The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century.. New York: Academic Press.

Further development of the world system and the underpinnings of industrialization.2000The Essential Wallerstein. New York: New Press, W. W. Norton. The father of world-system theory offers the basics of his influential theory.

Wallerstein, I. M.. (1980). The Modern World-System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World Economy, 1600--1750.. New York: Academic Press.

An anthropologist examines the effects of European expansion on tribal peoples and sets forth a world-system approach to anthropology.

Wolf, E. R.. (1982). Europe and the People without History.. Berkeley: University of California Press.

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