Product Description

The final volume in Manuel Castells′ trilogy is devoted to processes of global social change induced by interaction between networks and identity.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #224375 in Books
• Published on: 2000-06-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

Review
"The most compelling attempt yet made to map the contours of the global information age." Anthony Giddens, New Statesman.

"A superlative achievement. Castells has succeeded in producing a study that positively invites comparison with Marx. As Marx in Capital sought to analyze the operation and social tensions of early industrial capitalism, so Castells in his trilogy aims to understand the system, global informational capitalism, that is replacing it. He has thus set himself the ultimate challenge; the confirmation is already to hand that he has met it." Peter Hall, Cities.

"Not since Weber has there been such a determined and largely successful effort to bring to bear the results and analytical perspectives of all the social sciences on the evolution of society. It is to be hoped that his book will be read by social scientists of all kinds, but especially by economists since they, probably more than anyone else, need to be reminded that Max Weber was a professor of economics." Chris Freeman, New Political Economy.

"A magnum opus if ever there was one, these three books together constitute, in my view, the finest piece of contemporary social analysis for at least a generation." Frank Webster, British Journal of Sociology.

Peter Hall, Cities
A superlative achievement. Castells has succeeded in producing a study that positively invites comparison with Marx.

Frank Webster, British Journal of Sociology
A magnum opus if ever there was one.

Customer Reviews

Compressible and Remarkable End of Castells'Trilogy
In his last book of The Information Age trilogy, End of Millenium, Manuel Castells closes his serial books by examining chosen activities in several different areas in the worlds to show the manifestations of the network society. He offers the important of considering the intersection of global network society and factional project identities. His argument is still, as always, far-ranging. By empirically examining the collapse of Soviet Union to show the inability of static industrial model to manage the transition to Information Age. Castells then uses the case of Africans, the American urban poor to show inequality, polarization, and social exclusion through out the world. He includes Asian Pasific countries to show how the cultural and political strategies of this region have been developed to cope with the global economy. He also raises the issue of global criminal economy, a dark counterpart to transnational economy that affect the politics and economics in many countries, and suggests that trends "may well indicate the cultural breakdown of traditional moral order, and the implicit recognition of a new society, made up of communal identity and unruly competition."
The book is a product of a scholarly logic and carefully follow scholarly processes and brilliantly describe the society - human condition, yet it actually does not offer any framework to see the society. Among three volumes of the Information Age trilogy, this book is perhaps the most compressible one. Supported by the great skill of writing, this book is remarkable and a worthy reading.