to Charles J Reid and others interested, the 10 most necessary books
are:
start with Richard J. Shannon, An Introduction to the World-systems
Perspective, Westview press 1996 (2nd edition).
then the classics:
Fernand Braudel, The Perspective of the World, Volume 3 of Civilization
and Capitalism. now published by University of California Press.
Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World-System Vols. 1-3
Andre Gunder Frank, World Accumulation 1492-1789
Samir Amin, Accumulation on a World Scale
Joshua Goldstein, Long Cycles
Christopher Chase-Dunn, Global Formation
Giovanni Arrighi, The Long Twentieth Century
Christian Suter, Debt Cycles in the World-Economy
Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall, Rise and Demise
That is more than ten if you count all the volumes. Only two of them are
by me because I am trying to appear modest.
chris