Global Ireland

Same Difference

Tom Inglis (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

302 Seiten

2007
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-94422-9 (ISBN)

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Ireland offers a concise synthesis of globalization's dramatic impact on Ireland in the past fifteen years. Tom Inglis explains what this means for traditional Irish culture and society and offers an incisive social portrait of globalizing Ireland.

Global Ireland offers a concise synthesis of globalization's dramatic impact on Ireland. In the past fifteen years, Ireland has transformed from a sleepy and depressed European backwater to the 'emerald tiger', a country with a booming economy based on knowledge and high-tech industries. Not long ago it was one of the poorest and most traditional countries in Europe, yet now it is one of the wealthiest and most cosmopolitan. Using a number of case studies of Ireland's transition, Tom Inglis explains what this means for traditional Irish culture and society, and offers an incisive social portrait of globalizing Ireland.

Concise, descriptive, interdisciplinary and theoretically informed, this volume is an ideal introduction to Ireland.

Tom Inglis is Associate Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin. He is author of three books on Ireland: Moral Monopoly, Lessons in Irish Sexuality, and Truth, Power and Lies.

1. Introduction 2. The Economic Field 3. The Political Field 4. The Social Field 5. The Cultural Field: Global Penetration

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.12.2007
Reihe/Serie	Global Realities
Zusatzinfo	4 Halftones, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	720 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-415-94422-8 / 0415944228
ISBN-13	978-0-415-94422-9 / 9780415944229
Zustand	Neuware