[v.1]. Capitalist agriculture and the origins of the European world-economy in the sixteenth century -- Medieval prelude -- New European division of labor: c.1450-1640 -- Absolute Monarchy and Statism -- From Seville to Amsterdam: the failure of Empire -- Strong core-states: class-formation and international commerce -- European world-economy: periphery versus external arena -- Theoretical reprise -- v. 2. Mercantilism and the consolidation of the European world-economy, 1600-1750 -- The B-Phase -- Dutch hegemony in the world-economy -- Struggle in the core -- phase I: 1651-1689 -- Peripheries in an era of slow growth -- Semiperipheries at the crossroads -- Struggle in the core-phase II: 1689-1763 -- The v. 3. The second era of great expansion of the Capitalist world-economy, 1730-1840s -- Industry and bourgeoisie -- Struggle in the core-phase III: 1763-1815 -- Incorporation of vast new zones into the world-economy: 1750-1850 -- Settler decolonization of the Americas: 1763-1833 -- [v.] 4. Centrist liberalism triumphant, 1789-1914.

[v.1]. Capitalist agriculture and the origins of the European world-economy in the sixteenth century -- v. 2. Mercantilism and the consolidation of the European world-economy, 1600-1750 -- v. 3. The second era of great expansion of the capitalist world economy, 1730-1840s -- [v.] 4. Centrist liberalism triumphant, 1789-1914.