The Modern World System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European W

Immanuel Wallerstein The Modern World-System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600-1750

Academic Press | 1980 | ISBN: 0127859241 | 384 pages | PDF | 24 MB

This book covers the consolidation of the European world-economy during the seventeenth century.

The 17th century history was determined by the struggle for the surplus-value between states and classes. States tried to concentrate all the major sources of capitalist profits within their frontiers in order to become the centre (core) state: cereals, textile, metallurgical products, transport infrastructure, entrepots of the Atlantic trade. The core country tried to use other countries as conveyors (semi-peripheries) of the created surplus-value in the peripheries. Within the emerging core state, classes battled among themselves for a major part of this surplus-value.

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