CONTENTS // Acknowledgments vii // To Start: Understanding the World in Which We Live ix // 1 Historical Origins of World-Systems Analysis: From Social Science Disciplines to Historical Social Sciences i // 2 The Modern World-System as a Capitalist World-Economy: Production, Surplus-Value, and Polarization 23 // 3 The Rise of the States-System: Sovereign Nation-States, Colonies, and the Interstate System 42 // 4 The Creation of a Geoculture: Ideologies, Social Movements, Social Science 60 // 5 The Modern World-System in Crisis: Bifurcation, Chaos, and Choices 76 // Glossary 91 // Bibliographical Guide 101 Index 105