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End of Millennium: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture (Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture) (Paperback)
$32.14 - Save $2.83 (8%) - RRP $34.97 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for End of MillenniumThis final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy studies the key defining processes taking place in the last decade of the 20th century as an expression of the crises resulting from the transition between the old industrial society and the emerging global network society.
Full description- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
- Published: 06 April 2010
- Format: Paperback 488 pages
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- Categories: Cultural Studies | Social & Cultural Anthropology | Development Economics | Impact Of Science & Technology On Society | Human Geography
- ISBN 13: 9781405196888 ISBN 10: 1405196882
- Sales rank: 169,213
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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
