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What are the implications for culture and politics of the current fashion for talking about globalization? In a powerful study of capitalism in the advanced industrial North, Paul Smith demystifies much of the cant that surrounds this discourse and offers searching analysis of a series of cultural phenomena that have emerged in Germany, Britain, and the United States during the 1990s. Opening with a comparison of the rhetoric and the reality of globalization, Smith then makes a study of these three North Atlantic capitalist societies on the eve of the millennium. In Germany he concentrates on…
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1 edition- Other · English · 1997Verso · 275 pages · 9781859849187
Economic historyInternational relationsSocial aspectsSocial historyPolitiekCultuurMaatschappijSocial history, 20th century