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End of millennium / Manuel Castells

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: The information age ; Volume 3Publisher: West Sussex ,U.K ; Malden, Mass : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010Edition: Second edition with a new prefaceDescription: 1 Online-Ressource : IllustrationenISBN:
  • 9781405196888
  • 9781444323443
  • 1282491571
  • 9781282491571
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781405196888 | 1405196882 | 1282486853 | Erscheint auch als: The information age ; 3: End of millennium. Druck-Ausgabe 2nd ed. with a new preface. Malden, Mass. [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. XXX, 456 S.DDC classification:
  • 303.484
RVK: RVK: MS 1180 | MS 1190LOC classification:
  • TK523
  • HN17.5
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Contents:
End of Millennium; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Charts; Preface to the 2010 Edition of End of Millennium; Acknowledgments 1997; A Time of Change; 1 The Crisis of Industrial Statism and the Collapse of the Soviet Union; 2 The Rise of the Fourth World: Informational Capitalism, Poverty, and Social Exclusion; 3 The Perverse Connection: the Global Criminal Economy; 4 Development and Crisis in the Asian Pacific: Globalization and the State; 5 The Unification of Europe: Globalization, Identity, and the Network State; Conclusion: Making Sense of our World
Summary of Contents of Volumes I and IIReferences; Index;
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 systemReflects on the contradictions of European unification, proposing the concept of the network stateSubstantial new preface assesses the validity of the theoretical construction presented in the conclusion of the trilogy, proposing some conceptual modificationsPPN: PPN: 807303534Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-30-PQE
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