Author : Manuel Castells
Release : 2010-01-26
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 443/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis End of Millennium by : Manuel Castells
Download or read book End of Millennium written by Manuel Castells. This book was released on 2010-01-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy, with a substantialnew preface, is devoted to processes of global social changeinduced by the transition from the old industrial society to theemerging global network society. Explains why China, rather than Japan, is the economic andpolitical 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 thetheoretical construction presented in the conclusion of thetrilogy, proposing some conceptual modifications in light of theobserved experience
