The Sources of Social Power
Volume 2. The Rise of Classes and Nation States 1760–1914
- Author: Michael Mann
- Date Published: May 2012
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This second volume of Michael Mann's analytical history of social power deals with power relations between the Industrial Revolution and the First World War, focusing on France, Great Britain, Hapsburg Austria, Prussia/Germany and the United States. Based on considerable empirical research it provides original theories of the rise of nations and nationalism, of class conflict, of the modern state and of modern militarism. While not afraid to generalise, it also stresses social and historical complexity. The author sees human society as 'a patterned mess' and attempts to provide a sociological theory appropriate to this. This theory culminates in the final chapter, an original explanation of the causes of the First World War.
Read more- Major interdisciplinary survey. Should be of interest to historians, political and social theorists
- There are many general histories of the modern west but this is the first sociological analysis to address the period
- Volume I sold well and was widely reviewed. From review of volume I: 'The ambition of the conception is, against all conventional expectations, matched by the clarity and grandeur of the execution.'TLS
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'It is a study bursting with interesting ideas as well as covering a rich sweep of empirical materials … This book, like its predecessor, will become something of a sociological classic … very few authors could have marshalled such diverse material in such a systematic , yet analytically precise way.' Anthony Giddens, New Stateman & Society
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- Date Published: May 2012
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781139243179
- contains: 5 b/w illus. 36 tables
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Economic and ideological power relations
3. A theory of the modern state
4. The Industrial Revolution and old regime liberalism in Britain, 1760–1880
5. The American Revolution and the institutionalisation of confederal capitalist liberalism
6. The French Revolution and the bourgeois nation
7. Conclusion to chapter 4-6: the emergence of classes and nations
8. Geopolitics and international capitalism
9. Struggle over Germany, I: Prussia and authoritarian national capitalism
10. Struggle over Germany, II: Austria and confederal representation
11. The rise of the modern state, I: quantitative data
12. The rise of the modern state, II: the autonomy of military power
13. The rise of the modern state, III: bureaucratization
14. The rise of the modern state, IV: the expansion of civilian scope
15. The resistible rise of the British working class, 1815–1880
16. The middle class nation
17 Class struggle in the second industrial revolution, 1880–1914
, I: Great Britain
18. Class struggle in the second industrial revolution, 1880–1914, II
comparative analysis of working class movements
19. Class struggle in the second industrial revolution, 1880–1914, III: the peasantry
20. Theoretical conclusion: classes, states, nations and the sources of social power
21. Empirical culmination - over the top: geopolitics, class struggle and World War I
Appendix
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