The Sources of Social Power
Volume 1. A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760
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- Author: Michael Mann, London School of Economics and Political Science
- Date Published: February 2011
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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.
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- Date Published: February 2011
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511826856
- contains: 9 b/w illus. 11 tables
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Societies as organized power networks
2. The end of general social evolution: how prehistoric peoples evaded power
3. The emergence of stratification, states, and multi-power-actor civilisation in Mesopotamia
4. A comparative analysis of the emergence of stratification, states, and multi-power-actor civilisations
5. The first empires of domination: the dialectics of compulsory cooperation
6. 'Indo-Europeans' and iron: expanding, diversified power networks
7. Phoenicians and Greeks: decentralized multi-power-actor civilisations
8. Revitalized empires of domination: Assyria and Persia
9. The Roman territorial empire
10. Ideology transcendent: the Christian ecumene
11. A comparative excursus into the world religions: Confucianism, Islam, and (especially) Hindu caste
12. The European dynamic: I. The intensive phase, A. D. 800–1155
13. The European dynamics: II. The rise of coordinating states, 1155–1477
14. The European dynamic: III. International capitalism and organic national states, 1477–1760
15. European conclusions: explaining European dynamism - capitalism, Christendom, and states
16. Patterns of world-historical development in agrarian societies
Index.
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