End of millennium / Manuel Castells.

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Castells, Manuel, 1942-

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TextSeries: Castells, Manuel, Information age ; v. 3Publication details: Oxford ; Malden : Blackwell Publishers, 2010.Edition: 2nd ed., with a new prefaceDescription: xxx, 456 p. : ill. map ; 23 cmContent type:

text

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9781405196888

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Books	Marbella International University Centre Library	330 CAS end (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	10432

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.

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