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Containing over 600 entries on the essential topics of Globalization, this collection offers the definitive reference resource for students, researchers and academics in the field.

Updated annually
Offers clear and concise explanations of the key concepts of Globalization
Includes entries on concepts derived from across the social sciences, from sociology and anthropology to political science, economics, and human geography
Looks at the founding theories as well as the realities of globalization today
Covers the essential topics in the study of globalization, including agency-structure, Americanization, anti-globalization, Bretton Woods; coca-colonization, Empire; Euro crisis, ethnic cleansing, exploitation, feminization of poverty, genocide, global warming, nation-state, neo-liberalism, oil, post-globalization, Qaedaism, rape, sex work, sport, terror, Transnational Corporations, Twitter Revolution, water crisis, Web 2.0, Wikileaks, World Social Forum and, Zapatistas
Includes a number of key documents listed as entries such as the Kyoto Protocol and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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www.globalizationencyclopedia.com

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Edited by one of the leading authorities in the field, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization brings together over 600 specially commissioned entries from the world's best scholars and teachers.

This groundbreaking reference work, the first in a series of encyclopedias on major topics within the social sciences, is arranged in A-Z format, and includes perspectives from across the social sciences. The encyclopedia examines the founding theories of the discipline and addresses the realities of globalization today.

International in scope and covering a broad range of topics from agency structure and advertising to World Trade Organization and Zapatistas, this landmark project offers an authoritative and up-to date resource for all those interested in the study of globalization.

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Title The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization, 5 Volume Set
Author George Ritzer (Editor)
Binding Hardcover
Edition First Edition
Pages 2680
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, Sussex, England
Date 2012
Features Bibliography, Index
ISBN 9781405188241 / 1405188243
Weight 11.65 lbs (5.28 kg)
Dimensions 11.3 x 7.8 x 8.6 in (28.70 x 19.81 x 21.84 cm)
Library of Congress subjects Globalization
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011035468
Dewey Decimal Code 303.482

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Citations

Choice, 08/01/2012, Page 0
Library Journal, 05/01/2012, Page 99

About the author

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; 2008; 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), and The Blackwell Companion to Globalization (2007). His work has been translated into over twenty languages.

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