{"product_id":"world-culture-9780631226765","title":"World Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book explores the development, content, and impact of world culture. Combining several of the most fruitful theoretical perspectives on world culture, including the world polity approach and globalization theory, the book gives a historical treatment of the development of world culture and assesses the complex impact of world culture on people, organizations, and societies. This is a provocative, synthetic, and grounded interpretation of world culture that is essential for any student or scholar of globalization and world affairs.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eTraces world culture back from the mid-19th century to the present day\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes numerous illustrations of key issues and empirical research\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten in lively, accessible language for the student and general scholar\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lechner and Boli's scholarship is extensive, theoretical, abstract and synthetic ... The authors engage in conceptual and theoretical refinement and synthesis of existing scholarship and extend that intellectual frontier with their own substantial contributions. Lechner and Boli ... deserve special commendation for the rich and illuminating historical context and examples.\" \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Lechner and Boli have done their homework and the compendium they offer is valuable in itself.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe International History Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This volume provides a fascinating, and immensely broad-ranging, call to understand the complex inter-relationships between geopolitical forces and those resilient urban lives. Whilst as a source of multiple departures it should be of interest to an equally broad ranging audience, for those particularly curious about the often-neglected ways in which extreme ideologies seek to construct and reconstruct understandings of cities there is much to consider.\" \u003ci\u003eAndrew Inch, Oxford Brookes University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Tables vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: The Olympic Games and the Meaning of World Culture 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Analyzing World Culture: Alternative Theories 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Tracing World Culture: A Brief History 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Constructing World Culture: UN Meetings as Global Ritual 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Sustaining World Culture: The Infrastructure of Technology and Organizations 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Differentiating World Culture: National Identity and the Pursuit of Diversity 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Transforming World Culture: The Antiglobalization Movement as Cultural Critique 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Expanding World Culture: Pentecostalism as a Global Movement 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Opposing World Culture: Islamism and the Clash of Civilizations 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Instituting World Culture: The International Criminal Court and Global Governance 215\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Epilogue: Reflections on World Culture 234\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 261\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403446067543,"sku":"9780631226765","price":86.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631226765.jpg?v=1730483495","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/world-culture-9780631226765","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}