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Cover -- The Spanish Socialist Party and themodernisation of Spain -- Contents -- Series editors foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The PSOE and social democracy -- 2 The character of Spanish Socialism: a historical overview, 1879-1982 -- 3 The PSOE and the European Community: from isolation to integration -- 4 Economic policy under the PSOE, 1982-96 -- 5 Foreign and security policy under the PSOE government (1982-96): the irresistible force of European imperatives? -- 6 The PSOE and the question of regional autonomy -- 7 The PSOE in opposition, 1996-2004

Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Note on Translations and Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Maps -- 1: From the Earliest Times to the German Coup of 1884 -- i: T he Powers and Samoa to 1877 -- ii: The Establishment of Treaty Rights in Samoa -- iii: The German Bid for the Islands -- iv: The Reaction in London -- 2: 'Furor Consularis' and the Establishment of the Tridominium 1885-89 -- i: Salisbury, Bismarck and the Secret Anglo-German Treaty on Samoa -- ii: The Washington Conference and its Aftermath -- iii: The German-American Confrontation over Samoa -- iv: The Berlin Conference of 1889

Globalization is widely accepted as being a defining process of our modern society. But to what extent do individuals think, feel or act in a way that takes account of the whole world? Do globalization processes really affect us in our everyday lives? And, if so, where are the boundaries between local and global society? This book investigates how local and global studies overlap and interact by examining how real, local lives function under global conditions. It begins by unravelling the most important concepts and debates in the field, opening them up to scrutiny and testing their assumptions through recent case studies and empirical material. The book goes on to examine the power of local forces in forming global processes and explores our attachment to local vs global identities, whilst asking if we can build on our local attachments to move towards a world society. From concerns about the international economy and growing global inequalities to worldwide fears of organized crime and terrorism, this insightful book suggests a new way of looking at the interaction of local and global transformations. Local Lives and Global Transformations gives student readers the knowledge and the encouragement to push the boundaries of their understanding of globalization. It is inspiring reading for all those studying and interested in globalization throughout the social sciences

When Hugh Laracy reviewed this book in The Journal of Pacific History in 1978 he rightly described it as the 'product of monumental research'. Exploring the diplomatic negotiations that led to the division of the Samoan Islands between Germany, Great Britain and the USA in 1899, it is a significant study of international relations between the three late nineteenth century super powers. The Pacific Islands were pawns in an international diplomatic chess game that involved Britain's early, but often unwilling, acquisition of Pacific territory; Germany's scramble to get its share to bolster its p

Consumer culture has been inextricably bound up with two parallel transformations: the growing emphasis on self-actualization or individualization in late modernity and the rise of a particularly disengaged and predatory capitalism during the last 40 years. Wide academic and public understanding exists concerning the separate ways in which each of these forces have played out in societies, cultures and politics especially since the late 1970s. Arguably, though, there has been less attempt to plot the interconnections between them or to grasp the implications of these for a potentially radical critique of consumerism. This neglect is unsatisfactory and ignores the grounding of both consumer culture and the pursuit of self-actualization in the underlying and changing structures of the capitalist economy such that the seductiveness of both serves to either conceal, beautify or seemingly de-fang the wolf underneath. At the same time, the article explores some of the main ways in which these overwhelmingly prevalent preoccupations isolate and disempower consumers by, for example, encouraging personal debt and competitive consumption, fostering the belief that self-branding processes will liberate individuals from unsatisfactory lives or because of the social fragmentation and humiliation that result when citizens' poverty excludes them from joining the dominant game. All this, in turn, leaves consumer-citizens socially and culturally ill-equipped to challenge the new capitalism through collective rather than purely individual action.