The Modern World-System IV

Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789–1914

Immanuel Wallerstein

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9780520267602
• eBook ISBN: 9780520948600
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Economic History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface: On Writing about the Modern World-System
• Chapter 1: Centrist Liberalism as Ideology
• Chapter 2: Constructing the Liberal State, 1815–1830
• Chapter 3: The Liberal State and Class Conflict, 1830–1875
• Chapter 4: The Citizen in a Liberal State
• Chapter 5: Liberalism as Social Science
• Chapter 6: The Argument Restated
• Bibliography
• Index