In this book, the authors set forth a new model of globalization that lays claims to supersede existing models, and then use this model to assess the way the pr

Society today faces multi-dimensional challenges that are hard to define and even harder to deal with. Social and economic systems throughout the world are beco

Charts the rise of consumerism and the new cosmopolitan material cultures that took shape across the globe from 1500 to 1820.

The challenges for young people making the transition to adulthood are greater today than ever before. Globalization, with its power to reach across national bo

This second volume, The Cultural Economy, analyzes the dynamic relationship in which culture is part of the process of economic change that in turn changes the