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Book Review of The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century (Studies in social discontinuity)

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I have not read this book since I was an undergraduate in the late 1970s. However, it was seminal for me in understanding the development of capitalism nd the world eceonomy. It is quite understandable for a nonexpert, but takes some serious reading.