End of Millennium With a New Preface, Volume III, Second edition With a new preface

End of Millennium: With a New Preface, Volume III, Second edition With a new preface By Manuel Castells(auth.)
2010 | 485 Pages | ISBN: 1405196882 | PDF | 5 MB
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 systemContent: Chapter 1 The Crisis of Industrial Statism and the Collapse of the Soviet Union (pages 5-68): Chapter 2 The Rise of the Fourth World: Informational Capitalism, Poverty, and Social Exclusion (pages 69-170): Chapter 3 The Perverse Connection: The Global Criminal Economy (pages 171-214): Chapter 4 Development and Crisis in the Asian Pacific: Globalization and the State (pages 215-341): Chapter 5 The Unification of Europe: Globalization, Identity, and the Network State (pages 342-370):