The fourth (and currently the last published) volume of Immanuel Wallerstein’s major work “The World-System of Modernity” covers the time period from the Great French Revolution to the beginning of the First World War. The main subjects of this volume: the formation of a liberal state in the countries of the center of the capitalist world-economy, class conflicts in the process of development of a liberal state, the history of the struggle for civil rights, the emergence of modern social sciences. Each of these plots is examined through the prism of the central theme of the entire volume - the emergence of the three main ideologies of modernity (liberalism, conservatism and socialism), which Wallerstein interprets as variants of one ideology - centrist liberalism, which during the “long nineteenth century” became the dominant geoculture of the capitalist world-system .