{"product_id":"end-of-millennium-isbn-9781405196888","title":"End of Millennium","description":"END OF MILLENNIUM \u003cp\u003eThis final volume in Manuel Castells’ trilogy studies the key defining processes taking place in the last decade of the twentieth century as an expression of the crises resulting from the transition between the old industrial society and the emerging global network society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Every now and then one reads a book of social science that is uplifting and mind expanding. These books are ambitious and lustrous, teaching us much about our world. Such is this work from the brilliant sociologist Manuel Castells. There is no other sociological work today that brings together in one panoramic expanse so many of the changes now occurring. This is a story not simply of global economic change, but of cultural upheavals. It is a tale not simply of the decline of sovereign states, but of the emergence of the new bases of power. And it is a narrative not merely about computer technology or the media, but of the very terms in which those agents work.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAnthony M. Orum\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eContemporary Sociology \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A magnum opus if ever there was one. In my view, the finest piece of contemporary social analysis for at least a generation.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrank Webster\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBritish Journal of Sociology \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A truly stunning achievement. A scholar who, with remarkable mastery, has brought his experience over a lifetime to bear on astonishingly diversified data set, pulling them together into a compelling account of the complex relationship between the progressive and the reactionary, the globalizing and particularizing forces that are transforming our perplexing world.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Barber\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Tables xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Charts xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface to the 2010 Edition of End of Millennium xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments 1997 xxvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Time of Change 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 The Crisis of Industrial Statism and the Collapse of the Soviet Union 5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Extensive Model of Economic Growth and the Limits of Hyperindustrialism 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Technology Question 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Abduction of Identity and the Crisis of Soviet Federalism 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Last Perestroika 46\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNationalism, Democracy, and the Disintegration of the Soviet State 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Scars of History, the Lessons for Theory, the Legacy for Society 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 The Rise of the Fourth World: Informational Capitalism, Poverty, and Social Exclusion 69\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToward a Polarized World? A Global Overview 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe De-humanization of Africa 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarginalization and selective integration of Sub-Saharan Africa in the informational-global economy 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrica’s technological apartheid at the dawn of the Information Age 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe predatory state 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eZaïre: the personal appropriation of the state 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNigeria: oil, ethnicity, and military predation 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEthnic identity, economic globalization, and state formation in Africa 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrica’s plight 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrica’s hope? The South African connection 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOut of Africa or back to Africa? The politics and economics of self-reliance 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New American Dilemma: Inequality, Urban Poverty, and Social Exclusion in the Information Age 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDual America 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe inner-city ghetto as a system of social exclusion 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen the underclass goes to hell 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobalization, Over-exploitation, and Social Exclusion: the View from the Children 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe sexual exploitation of children 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe killing of children: war massacres and child soldiers 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy children are wasted 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: the Black Holes of Informational Capitalism 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 The Perverse Connection: the Global Criminal Economy 171\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrganizational Globalization of Crime, Cultural Identification of Criminals 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Pillage of Russia 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe structural perspective 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIdentifying the actors 190\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMechanisms of Accumulation 193\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNarcotrafico, Development, and Dependency in Latin America 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat are the economic consequences of the drugs industry for Latin America? 202\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy Colombia? 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Impact of Global Crime on Economy, Politics, and Culture 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Development and Crisis in the Asian Pacific: Globalization and the State 215\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Changing Fortunes of the Asian Pacific 215\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHeisei’s Japan: Developmental State versus Information Society 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA social model of the Japanese developmental process 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeclining sun: the crisis of the Japanese model of development 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe end of ‘‘Nagatacho politics’’ 248\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHatten Hokka and Johoka Shakai: a contradictory relationship 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJapan and the Pacific 258\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeheading the Dragon? Four Asian Tigers with a Dragon Head, and their Civil Societies 259\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnderstanding Asian development 261\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSingapore: state nation-building via multinational corporations 262\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSouth Korea: the state production of oligopolistic capitalism 266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTaiwan: flexible capitalism under the guidance of an inflexible state 270\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHong Kong model versus Hong Kong reality: small business in a world economy, and the colonial version of the welfare state 274\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe breeding of the tigers: commonalities and dissimilarities in their process of economic development 279\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe developmental state in East Asian industrialization: on the concept of the developmental state 286\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe rise of the developmental state: from the politics of survival to the process of nation-building 288\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe state and civil society in the restructuring of East Asia: how the developmental state succeeded in the development process 293\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDivergent paths: Asian ‘‘tigers’’ in the economic crisis 297\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDemocracy, identity, and development in East Asia in the 1990s 303\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChinese Developmental Nationalism with Socialist Characteristics 311\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe new Chinese revolution 312\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGuanxi capitalism? China in the global economy 317\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChina’s regional developmental states and the bureaucratic (capitalist) entrepreneurs 321\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWeathering the storm? China in the Asian economic crisis 325\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDemocracy, development, and nationalism in the new China 328\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Globalization and the State 337\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 The Unification of Europe: Globalization, Identity, and the Network State 342\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEuropean Unification as a Sequence of Defensive Reactions: a Half-century Perspective 344\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobalization and European Integration 352\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultural Identity and European Unification 361\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Institutionalization of Europe: the Network State 365\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEuropean Identity or European Project? 368\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Making Sense of our World 371\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGenesis of a New World 372\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA New Society 376\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Avenues of Social Change 387\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond this Millennium 389\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat is to be Done? 394\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinale 395\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary of Contents of Volumes I and II 397\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 399\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 433\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMANUEL CASTELLS\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and Research Professor at the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona. He is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Technology and Society at M.I.T., and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Internet Studies at Oxford University. He is the recipient of numerous academic awards, including the Guggenheim  Fellowship, C. Wright Mills Award, the Robert and Helen Lynd Award from the American Sociological Association, and the Ithiel de Sola Pool Award from the American Political Science Association. He is a Fellow of the European Academy, a Fellow of the Spanish Royal Academy of Economics, and a Corresponding  Fellow of the British Academy. He has received 16 honorary doctorates from universities around the world, and has been knighted by five countries. He has authored 23 books, among which is the trilogy \u003ci\u003eThe Information Age: Economy, Society, and Cultur\u003c\/i\u003ee, first published by Blackwell in 1996–8, and translated into 22 languages.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis final volume in Manuel Castells’ trilogy studies the key defining processes taking place in the last decade of the twentieth century as an expression of the crises resulting from the transition between the old industrial society and the emerging global network society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Every now and then one reads a book of social science that is uplifting and mind expanding. These books are ambitious and lustrous, teaching us much about our world. Such is this work from the brilliant sociologist Manuel Castells. There is no other sociological work today that brings together in one panoramic expanse so many of the changes now occurring. This is a story not simply of global economic change, but of cultural upheavals. It is a tale not simply of the decline of sovereign states, but of the emergence of the new bases of power. And it is a narrative not merely about computer technology or the media, but of the very terms in which those agents work.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAnthony M. Orum\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eContemporary Sociology \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A magnum opus if ever there was one. In my view, the finest piece of contemporary social analysis for at least a generation.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrank Webster\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBritish Journal of Sociology \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A truly stunning achievement. A scholar who, with remarkable mastery, has brought his experience over a lifetime to bear on astonishingly diversified data set, pulling them together into a compelling account of the complex relationship between the progressive and the reactionary, the globalizing and particularizing forces that are transforming our perplexing world.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Barber\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989131346149,"sku":"NP9781405196888","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405196888.jpg?v=1761782922","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/end-of-millennium-isbn-9781405196888","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}