End of millennium /
Castells, Manuel, 1942-
End of millennium / Manuel Castells. - 2nd ed., with a new preface. - Oxford ; Malden : Blackwell Publishers, 2010. - xxx, 456 p. : ill. map ; 23 cm. - The information age: economy, society and culture ; v. 3 . - Castells, Manuel, 1942- Information age v. 3 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A time of change --
Ch. 1. The crisis of industrial statism and the collapse of the Soviet Union --
Ch. 2. The rise of the Fourth World: informational capitalism, poverty, and social exclusion --
Ch. 3. The perverse connection: the global criminal economy --
Ch. 4. Development and the crisis in the Asian Pacific: globalization and the state --
Ch. 5. The unification of Europe: globalization, identity, and the Network State --
Conclusion: Making sense of our world.
This final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy, with a substantial new preface, is devoted to processes of global social change induced by the transition from the old industrial society to the emerging global network society.
* Explains why China, rather than Japan, is the economic and political actor that is revolutionizing the global system;
* Reflects on the contradictions of European unification, proposing the concept of the network state;
* Substantial new preface assesses the validity of the theoretical construction presented in the conclusion of the trilogy, proposing some conceptual modifications in light of the observed experience.
9781405196888
Social history--1970-
Economic history--1990-
Technology and civilization
Information society
Information technology--Social aspects
Information technology--Political aspects
303
End of millennium / Manuel Castells. - 2nd ed., with a new preface. - Oxford ; Malden : Blackwell Publishers, 2010. - xxx, 456 p. : ill. map ; 23 cm. - The information age: economy, society and culture ; v. 3 . - Castells, Manuel, 1942- Information age v. 3 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A time of change --
Ch. 1. The crisis of industrial statism and the collapse of the Soviet Union --
Ch. 2. The rise of the Fourth World: informational capitalism, poverty, and social exclusion --
Ch. 3. The perverse connection: the global criminal economy --
Ch. 4. Development and the crisis in the Asian Pacific: globalization and the state --
Ch. 5. The unification of Europe: globalization, identity, and the Network State --
Conclusion: Making sense of our world.
This final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy, with a substantial new preface, is devoted to processes of global social change induced by the transition from the old industrial society to the emerging global network society.
* Explains why China, rather than Japan, is the economic and political actor that is revolutionizing the global system;
* Reflects on the contradictions of European unification, proposing the concept of the network state;
* Substantial new preface assesses the validity of the theoretical construction presented in the conclusion of the trilogy, proposing some conceptual modifications in light of the observed experience.
9781405196888
Social history--1970-
Economic history--1990-
Technology and civilization
Information society
Information technology--Social aspects
Information technology--Political aspects
303