Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World-System IV. Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789–1914

Immanuel Wallerstein
The Modern World-System IV
Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789–1914
University of california press
2011

Présentation de l'éditeur
Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. This new volume encompasses the nineteenth century from the revolutionary era of 1789 to the First World War. In this crucial period, three great ideologies—conservatism, liberalism, and radicalism—emerged in response to the worldwide cultural transformation that came about when the French Revolution legitimized the sovereignty of the people. Wallerstein tells how capitalists, and Great Britain, brought relative order to the world and how liberalism triumphed as the dominant ideology.

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Preface: On Writing about the Modern World-System

1. Centrist Liberalism as Ideology
2. Constructing the Liberal State, 1815–1830
3. The Liberal State and Class Conflict, 1830–1875
4. The Citizen in a Liberal State
5. Liberalism as Social Science
6. The Argument Restated

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Immanuel Wallerstein is Senior Research Scholar at Yale University and the former President of the International Sociological Association. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction and European Universalism: The Rhetoric of Power.