ISBN:
1444323431
,
9781444323436
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
2nd ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Hoboken, N.J Wiley InterScience 2010 Electronic reproduction; Mode of access: World Wide Web
Series Statement:
The information age : economy, society and culture v. 3
Parallel Title:
Print version Castells, Manuel, 1942- End of millennium
DDC:
303.484
Keywords:
Information society
;
Information technology Social aspects
;
Social history 1970-
;
Technology and civilization
;
Economic history 1990-
;
Informationsgesellschaft
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Globalisierung
Abstract:
Of Contents of Volumes I and IIReferences; Index
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
Of Contents of Volumes I and IIReferences; Index
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
This ed. originally published: Oxford: Blackwell, 2000
,
Electronic reproduction; Mode of access: World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1002/9781444323436
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