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Introduction : History's changing fortunes -- The rise and fall of cultural theories -- The challenge of globalization -- Rethinking society and the self -- New purposes, new paradigms "With history ...

For years, "globalization" has been blamed for shuttered factories, stagnant wages, and political anger across the American heartland. Yet the data and the policy record point to a different story: ...