Author

Publication

1997 - Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif, California

Language

English

Word Count

61,500 words, Guess

Page Count

246 pages

Identifiers

and 8 more
  • ISBN-139780804728706
  • LibraryThing6902078
  • Goodreads4253039', '3132274
  • Library of Congress Control Number96069671
  • OCLC Control Number36586547
  • Better World Books9780804728690
  • Better World Books9780804728706
  • Open LibraryOL1016359M

Classifications

  • DDC300
  • LCCH61 .A54 1997
  • LCCH61.A54 1997

Description

This study argues that a history of the present needs an explicit epochal theory to understand the transition to the global age. When globality displaces modernity there is a general decentring of state, government, economy, culture and community.

First Sentence

The account which heads this chapter will strike some as odd, even self-contradictory.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The global age: state and society beyond modernityStanford University Press1997-01-01
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