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Globalization:

The Essentials (Google eBook)
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John Wiley & Sons, Jan 11, 2011 - Political Science - 352 pages
Essentials of Globalization is a highly useful compact edition of the author's full-scale textbook, Globalization: A Basic Text. The Essentials is written in a style accessible to undergraduates, and draws on both academic and popular sources in its explanations.
  • A highly useful compact version of Globalization: A Basic Text, which contains the all major areas in an accessible and affordable format for undergraduate students
  • Develops a unique perspective on globalization early in the book and uses it throughout to orient and organize discussion of a wide range of topics and parts of the world
  • Integrated use of a wide array of sources, including empirical research, theories, newspaper and magazine articles, monographs, and popular books
  • Designed to work as a basic text in globalization courses, or as a supplementary text in courses that include globalization as one of several topics
  

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Contents

Origins and History of Globalization
17
Theorizing Globalization
28
Structuring the Global Economy
55
Global Economic Flows
81
Global Political Structures and Processes
106
HighTech Global Flows and Structures
133
Global Culture and Cultural Flows
153
Global Flows of Migrants
178
Global Environmental Flows
204
Negative Global Flows and Processes
230
Inequality
260
Dealing with Resisting and the Future
291
Copyright

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About the author (2011)

George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, with awards that include the American Sociological Association's Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Award. He is the author of numerous books including The McDonaldization of Society (1993, 2011), The Globalization of Nothing (2003, 2007) Globalization: A Basic Text (2010) and the editor of The Encyclopedia of Social Theory (2005), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2007), The Blackwell Companion to Globalization (2007) and the forthcoming The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization. His work has been translated into over 20 languages.

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