The global age
state and society beyond modernity
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Author
Publication
1997 - Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif, California
Language
English
Word Count
61,500 words, Guess
Page Count
246 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveglobalagestateso0000albr
- Internet Archiveglobalagestateso0000albr_e7v0
- ISBN-100804728690
- ISBN-100804728704
- ISBN-139780804728690
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.
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