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Introduction: On modes of exchange -- Mini world systems -- The sedentary revolution -- The gift and magic -- World-empire -- The state -- World money -- World empires -- Universal religions -- The modern world system -- The modern state -- Industrial capital -- Nation -- Associationism -- The...