States, agriculture, and globalization -- The rise of the modern state : from street gangs to mafias -- States, markets, and the origins of international inequality -- Economic and hegemonic cycles -- The Industrial Revolution and late development -- Agricultural exporters and the search for labor -- Agriculture-led growth and crisis in the periphery : Ricardian success, Ricardian failure -- The collapse of the nineteenth-century economy : the erosion of hegemony? -- The fall and rise and fall again of globalization -- The Depression, US domestic politics, and the foundation of the post-World War II system -- International money, capital flows, and domestic politics -- Transnational firms : a war of all against all -- Industrialization in the old agricultural periphery : the rise of the newly industrialized countries -- Trade, protection, and renewed globalization -- US hegemony : declining from below? -- US hegemony and global stability : reviving or declining from the top down?