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This best-selling text vividly shows how political and economic changes affect people's lives in different settings around the world. Globalization, the author argues, is not completely new. Instead, the current wave of globalization builds on international institutions created just after World War II and was given new impetus by policies introduced in the 1970s and 80s. The new edition has five new chapters as well as updates and changes throughout.
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In a series of studies that can be read separately or together, Schaeffer (sociology, Kansas State U.) looks closely at various phenomena that different groups and interests glorify or vilify as globalization. He pays particular attention to events in and affecting the US, not only because the US is a primary player, but also to alert American readers to impacts on them. No date is cited for the first edition. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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