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End of millennium / Manuel Castells.

By: Castells, Manuel, 1942-Contributor(s): Wiley InterScience (Online service)Material type: Text

TextSeries: Information Age series: v. 3.Publisher: Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, ©2009Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781444323436; 1444323431; 9781444323443; 144432344XSubject(s): Social history -- 1970- | Economic history -- 1990- | Technology and civilization | Information society | Information technology -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: End of millennium.DDC classification: 303.484 LOC classification: HN17.5 | .C378 2009ebOnline resources: Click here to access online

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 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 modifica.

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Online	Gratia Christian College Library Internet	E-book		Available		8000020A

This ed. originally published: Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Of Contents of Volumes I and IIReferences; Index.

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 modifica.

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