The Sources of Social Power
Volume 2. The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760–1914
2nd Edition
- Author: Michael Mann, University of California, Los Angeles
- Date Published: September 2012
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Distinguishing four sources of power in human societies - ideological, economic, military and political - The Sources of Social Power traces their interrelations throughout human history. This second volume 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 generalize, it also stresses social and historical complexity. Michael Mann sees human society as 'a patterned mess' and attempts to provide a sociological theory appropriate to this, his final chapter giving an original explanation of the causes of the First World War. First published in 1993, this new edition of Volume 2 includes a new preface by the author examining the impact and legacy of the work.
Read more- First published in 1993, Volume 2 of Michael Mann's powerful trilogy has become a monumental work
- The 2nd edition includes a new preface by the author examining its impact and legacy
- Based on considerable empirical research
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Reviews of the first edition: 'The ambition of the conception is, against all conventional expectations, matched by the clarity and grandeur of the execution.' The Times Literary Supplement
See more reviews'This work offers a treasure trove of facts and interpretations that will be useful to readers in many disciplines …' Choice
'This is a book in the grand Weberian tradition. Mann's conceptual skills and historical grasp are virtuosic and the scope of his enterprise is truly impressive.' Politics and Society
'… a unique brand of historical sociology that is refreshingly iconoclastic, remarkably complex, and breathtakingly ambitious … a must-read for comparative and historical sociologists.' Contemporary Sociology
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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: September 2012
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781139558853
- 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 to the second edition
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 chapters 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, 1815–80
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
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