Author: Michael MannPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107031184
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 845
Book Description
This second volume deals with power relations between the Industrial Revolution and the First World War.
The Sources of Social Power: Volume 2, The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760-1914
Author: Michael MannPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107031184
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 845
Book Description
This second volume deals with power relations between the Industrial Revolution and the First World War.
The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760
Author: Michael MannPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521313490
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Distinguishing four sources of power in human societies - ideological, economic, military and political - 'The Sources of Social Power' traces their interrelations throughout human history. Volume 2 deals with power relations between the Industrial Revolution and the First World War.
The Sources of Social Power: Volume 3, Global Empires and Revolution, 1890–1945
Author: Michael MannPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139561251
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
Distinguishing four sources of power - ideological, economic, military and political - this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. This third volume of Michael Mann's analytical history of social power begins with nineteenth-century global empires and continues with a global history of the twentieth century up to 1945. Mann focuses on the interrelated development of capitalism, nation-states and empires. Volume 3 discusses the 'Great Divergence' between the fortunes of the West and the rest of the world; the self-destruction of European and Japanese power in two world wars; the Great Depression; the rise of American and Soviet power; the rivalry between capitalism, socialism and fascism; and the triumph of a reformed and democratic capitalism.
The Sources of Social Power: The rise of classes and nation-states, 1760-1914
Author: Michael MannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Power (Social sciences)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This third volume of Michael Mann's analytical history of social power begins with nineteenth-century global empires and continues with a global history of the twentieth century up to 1945. Mann focuses on the interrelated development of capitalism, nation-states, and empires. Volume 3 discusses the "Great Divergence" between the fortunes of the West and the rest of the world; the self-destruction of European and Japanese power in two world wars; the Great Depression; the rise of American and Soviet power; the rivalry between capitalism, socialism, and fascism; and the triumph of a reformed and democratic capitalism. -- from back cover of Volume 3.
The Sources of Social Power: Volume 3, Global Empires and Revolution, 1890-1945
Author: Michael MannPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107028655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
This third volume of Michael Mann's analytical history of social power focuses on the interrelated development of capitalism, nation-states and empires.
An Anatomy of Power
Author: John A. HallPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139450700
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Michael Mann is one of the most influential sociologists of recent decades. His work has had a major impact in sociology, history, political science, international relations and other social science disciplines. His main work, The Sources of Social Power, of which two of three volumes have been completed, provides an all-encompassing account of the history of power from the beginnings of stratified societies to present day. Recently he has published two major works, Fascists and The Dark Side of Democracy. Yet unlike other contemporary social thinkers, Mann's work has not, until now, been systematically and critically assessed. This volume assembles a group of distinguished scholars to take stock, both of Mann's overall method and of his account of particular periods and historical cases. It also contains Mann's reply where he answers his critics and forcefully restates his position. This is a unique and provocative study for scholars and students alike.
Incoherent Empire
Author: Michael MannPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1789603331
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
In this book, noted sociologist Michael Mann argues that the "new American imperialism" is actually a new militarism. Dissecting the economic, political, military and ideological resources available to the US, Mann concludes that they are so uneven as to generate only an 'incoherent empire' and increasing world disorder. The US is a military giant, though it is better at devastating than pacifying countries. It is a political schizophrenic, its personality split between multilateralism, unilateralism and an actual inability to rule over foreign lands or to control its own supposed client states. It is only a backseat driver of the global economy. It cannot steer it, but it prods poorer countries toward an unproductive and unpopular neo-liberalism.
The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760
Author: Michael MannPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521308519
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
This is the first part of a three-volume work on the nature of power in human societies. In it, Michael Mann identifies the four principal 'sources' of power as being control over economic, ideological, military, and political resources. He examines the interrelations between these in a narrative history of power from Neolithic times, through ancient Near Eastern civilisations, the classical Mediterranean age, and medieval Europe, up to just before the Industrial Revolution in England. Rejecting the conventional monolithic concept of a 'society', Dr. Mann's model is instead one of a series of overlapping, intersecting power networks. He makes this model operational by focusing on the logistics of power - how the flow of information, manpower, and goods is controlled over social and geographical space-thereby clarifying many of the 'great debates' in sociological theory. The present volume offers explanations of the emergence of the state and social stratification.
The Sources of Social Power: Volume 4, Globalizations, 1945-2011
Author: Michael MannPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107028678
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Distinguishing four sources of power - ideological, economic, military, and political - this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. This fourth volume of Michael Mann's analytical history of social power covers the period from 1945 to the present, focusing on the three major pillars of postwar global order: capitalism, the nation-state system, and the sole remaining empire of the world, the United States. In the course of this period, capitalism, nation-states, and empires interacted with one another and were transformed. Mann's key argument is that globalization is not just a single process, because there are globalizations of all four sources of social power, each of which has a different rhythm of development. Topics include the rise and beginnings of decline of the American Empire, the fall or transformation of communism (respectively, the Soviet Union and China), the shift from neo-Keynesianism to neoliberalism, and the three great crises emerging in this period - nuclear weapons, the great recession, and climate change.
Power in the 21st Century
Author: Michael MannPublisher: Polity
ISBN: 0745653235
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Michael Mann is one of the most influential sociologists writing today. His three-volume work The Sources of Social Power, the third volume of which has just been completed, has transformed our way of thinking about power and has rewritten the history of human societies. No one interested in understanding how the modern world was shaped, how we got to where we are today and where we’re likely to be heading, can afford to ignore this modern classic. Michael Mann is, as John Hall aptly describes him, ‘a Max Weber for our times.’ Conducted in the form of an extended dialogue with John Hall, this concise and accessible book is the ideal introduction to the work and thought of one of the most original social scientists in the world today. Students and scholars will find the book invaluable, and general readers will find in this book a clear, insightful and masterful guide to the key challenges we face in the years and decades ahead.