Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1930–2019) was a distinguished American sociologist, economic historian, and world-systems analyst. He is primarily recognized for developing 'world-systems theory,' a macrohistorical approach that examines the socioeconomic dynamics of global dependence and interdependence, particularly the dynamics of global capitalism and the role of wealthy nations in manipulating weaker ones. Educated at Columbia University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1959, he became a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University in 2000. His work has profoundly shaped social and political philosophy by providing a framework for understanding global inequality, anti-colonial movements, and the historical development of the European world-economy. His book 'Europa', published in 2000, serves as a textual component of a photographic work documenting European history.[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
Europa2000 · Ludion · book · nlISBN 9055442879Text by Immanuel Wallerstein accompanying photographs by Carl de Keyzer.
The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-economy in the Sixteenth Century1974 · University of California Press · book · en
The Modern World-System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600-17501980 · book · en
The End of the World as We Know It: Social Science for the Twenty-First Century1999 · University of Minnesota Press · book · enA state-of-the-world address delivered by a scholar.
