The global age : state and society beyond modernity /
By: Albrow, Martin
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Publisher: Cambridge, UK : Polity Press in association with Blackwell Publishers, c1996Description: ix, 246 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0745611885; 9780745611884:; 0745611893 (pbk.).Subject(s): Social sciences -- Philosophy | International relations | SociologyDDC classification: 303.4 Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-230) and index.
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.
Originally published: Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, c1996.