TY  - BOOK
AU  - Castells,Manuel
TI  - End of millennium
T2  - The information age: economy, society and culture
SN  - 9781405196888
U1  - 303 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Oxford, Malden
PB  - Blackwell Publishers
KW  - Social history
KW  - 1970-
KW  - Economic history
KW  - 1990-
KW  - Technology and civilization
KW  - Information society
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Political aspects
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -