Introduction / Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz -- The analytical-holistic divide within world-systems analysis / David Baronov -- Coercion and concrete labor within historical capitalism : reexamining intersectionality theory / Kelvin Santiago-Valles -- Modern world-system or capitalist...

In this study, Eric Mielants provides a novel interdisciplinary interpretation of the origins of modernity and capitalism in particular. He argues that contrary to popular thinking, the Rise of the West should not be analyzed in terms of the Industrial Revolution or the colonization of the New...