Description: This book brings an empirical social science perspective to a public issue on which observers, economists, and business gurus have freely unleashed their abstract models and jumbo schemes. Written by internationally acclaimed authors, the chapters engage empirically tractable ...
Brief description: Orvar Lofgren is Professor, Department of European Ethnology, University of Lund, Sweden.
Review Quotes:
"The book is firm and accurate in its contention that contemporary globalization is but the lates turn in a much longer historical process." --Journal Of Intercultural Studies
"The Ends of Globalization wheels out an impressive range of major authors in the field. The book is successful in bringing together a wide and diverse range of issues in connection with the process of globalization." --British Sociological Association Newsletter