Volume 3:
Foreword
Divisions Of Space And Time In Europe:
Economies In Space: The World-Economies:
World-economies
There have always been world-economies
Some ground rules
Rule One: Boundaries change only slowly
Rule Two: Dominant capitalist city always lies at the center
Rule Two (continued): Cities take it in turns to lead
Rule Two (continued): Power and influence of cities may vary
Rule Three: There is always a hierarchy of zones within a world-economy
Rule Three (continued): Von Thunen's zones
Rule Three (continued): Spatial arrangement of the world-economy
Rule Three (continued): Do neutral zones exist?
Rule Three (continued): Do neutral zone exist?
Rule Three (continued): Envelope and infrastructure
World-Economy: An Order Among Other Orders:
Economic order and the international division of labor
State: political power and economic power
Empire and world-economy
War and the zones of the world-economy
Societies and world-economy
Cultural order World-economy model is certainly a valid one
World-Economy And Divisions Of Time:
Rhythms of the 'conjuncture
Fluctuations across a spatial sounding-broad
Secular trend
Explanatory chronology of the world economies
Kondratieff cycles and the secular trend
Can the long-term conjuncture be explained?
Past and present
City-Centred Economies Of The European Past: Before And After Venice:
First European World-Economy:
European expansion from the eleventh century
World-economy and bi-polarity
Northern complex: the heyday of Bruges
Northern complex: the rise of the Hansa
Other pole of attraction: the Italian cities
Interlude: the Champagne fairs
France's lost opportunity
Belated Rise Of Venice:
Genoa versus Venice
Venice reigns supreme
World-economy centred on Venice
Venice's responsibility
Galere da mercato
Venetian model of capitalism
Labor in Venice
Hand industry become Venice's major activity?
Turkish peril
Unexpected Rise Of Portugal; Or From Venice To Antwerp:
Traditional explanation
New interpretations
Antwerp: a world capital created by outside agency
Stages in Antwerp's career
Antwerp's first experience of expansion and disappointment
Antwerp's second boom and slump
Antwerp's industrial phase
Originality of Antwerp
Putting The Record Straight: The Age Of The Genoese:
Screen of barren mountains
Operating by remote control
Balancing act
Genoa's discreet rule over Europe
Reasons for the Genoese success
Genoese withdrawal
Genoa survives
Back to the world-economy
City-Centred Economies Of The European Past: Amsterdam:
United Provinces: The Economy Begins At Home:
Strip of land, lacking in natural wealth
Agricultural achievement
High-voltage urban economy
Amsterdam
Variegated population
Fisheries from the first
Dutch fleet
Can the United Provinces be called a 'state'
Internal structures: little change
Taxing the poor
United Provinces and the outside world
When business was king
Traders To Europe, Traders to the World:
Seeds of success hand all been sown by 1585
Rest of Europe and the Mediterranean
Dutch versus the Portuguese, or the art of the takeover bid
Coherence of trade within the Dutch Empire
Success In Asia, Lack Of Success In America:
Struggle and success
Rise and fall of the VOC
Why the collapse in the eighteenth century?
Failure in the New World: the limits of Dutch success
World-Domination And Capitalism:
What was good for the entrepot trade was good for Amsterdam
Commodities and credit
Commission trade
Acceptance trade
Loans mania or the perversion of capital
Change of perspective: away from Amsterdam
Baltic countries
France versus Holland: an unequal struggle
England and Holland
Outside Europe: the East Indies
Is it possible to generalize?
On The Decline Of Amsterdam:
Crises of 1763, 1772-1773, 1780-1783
Batavian revolution
National Markets:
Elements And Compounds:
Hierarchy of units
Provincial units and markets
Nation-state, yes-but the national market?
Internal customs barriers
Against a priori definitions
Territorial economy and the city-centered economy
Weights And Measures:
Three variables, three sets of dimensions
Three ambiguous concepts
Orders of magnitude and correlations
National debt and GNP
Some other equations
From consumption to GNP
Frank Spooner's calculations
Visible continuities
Frances: A Victim Of Her Size:
Diversity and unity
Natural and artificial links
Primacy of Politics
Was France simply too big?
Paris plus Lyon, Lyon plus Paris
Paris takes the crown
Plea for a differential history
For and against the Rouen-Geneva line
Border zones, coastal and continental
Towns of the other France
French interior
Interior colonized by the periphery
England's Trading Supremacy:
How England become an island
Pound sterling
London creates the national market and is created by it
How England became Great Britain
England's greatness and the national debt
From the treaty of Versailles (1783) to the Eden Treaty (1786)
Statistics: a contribution but not a solution
For And Against Europe: The Rest Of The World:
Americas; Playing For The Highest Stakes Of All:
America's wide-open spaces: hostile but promising
Regional or national markets
Patterns of slavery
When the colonies worked for Europe
When the colonies worked against Europe
Conflict over industry
English colonies choose liberty
Competition and rivalry in trade
Exploitation of America by Spain and Portugal
Spanish America reconsidered
Spanish Empire taken in hand again
Treasure of treasures
Neither feudalism nor capitalism?

Black Africa: Collaborator As Well As Victim?:
Western half of Africa
Black Africa: isolated yet accessible
From the coast to the interior
Three-cornered traffic and its terms of trade
End of the slave trade
Russian World-Economy: A World Apart:
Return of the Russian economy to quasi-autonomy
Strong state
Yoke of serfdom in Russia: an ever-increasing burden
Market and rural society
Small-town society
World-economy-but what kind of world-economy?
Invention of Siberia
Inferiorities and weaknesses
Price of European intrusion
Turkish Empire:
Foundations of a world-economy
Scale of European penetration of the Turkish Empire
Land of caravans
Turkish waters: a well-protected sector
Merchants serving the Ottoman Empire
Economic decadence, political decadence
Far East: Greatest Of All The World-Economies:
Fourth world-economy
India's self-inflicted conquest
Gold and silver, strength or weakness?
European assault force: merchants with a difference
Trading posts, factories, supercargoes
How to get at the real history of the Far East?
Villages of India
Artisans and industry
National market
Significance of the Mogul Empire
Political and non-political reasons for the fall of the Mogul Empire
India's decline in the nineteenth century
India and china: caught in a super-world-economy
Malacca's hour of glory
New centers of the Far East
Is Any Conclusion Possible?:
Industrial Revolution And Growth:
Some Relevant Comparisons:
Revolution: a complicated and ambiguous term
Downstream from the industrial revolution: the under-developed countries
Upstream from the English industrial revolution: revolutions that came to nothing
Alexandrian Egypt
Earliest industrial revolution in Europe: horses and mills, from the eleventh to the thirteenth century
Age of Agricola and Leonardo da Vinci: a revolution in embryo
John U Nef and the first British industrial revolution 1560-1640
Industrial Revolution In Britain, Sector By Sector:
British agriculture, a crucial factor
Demographic revival
Technology, a necessary but probably not sufficient condition
Why the cotton revolution should not be underestimated
Victory in long-distance trade
Spread of inland transport
Mills of history grind exceedingly slow
Beyond The Industrial Revolution:
Types of growth
How can growth be explained?
Growth and the division of labor
Division of labor: the end of the road for the putting-out system
Industrialists
British economy and society by sector
Division of labor and the geography of Britain
Finance and capitalism
How important was the short-term economic climate?
Material progress and living standards
By Way Of Conclusion: Past And Present:
Capitalism and the long-term
Capitalism and the social context
Can capitalism survive?
Conclusion to end conclusions: capitalism and the market economy
Notes
Index.

Volume 1: Structures of everyday life: the limits of the possible
Volume 2: Wheels of commerce
Volume 3: Perspective of the world.