Sources of Social Power The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760-1914

Name: Sources of Social Power The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760-1914
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ISBN: 9780521313490

ISBN-10: 052131349X

ISBN-13: 9780521313490

Edition: 1986

Authors: Michael Mann

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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…

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List price: $47.00
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/30/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Preface



Societies as organized power networks



The end of general social evolution: how prehistoric peoples evaded power



The emergence of stratification, states, and multi-power-actor civilisation in Mesopotamia



A comparative analysis of the emergence of stratification, states, and multi-power-actor civilisations



The first empires of domination: the dialectics of compulsory cooperation



'Indo-Europeans' and iron: expanding, diversified power networks



Phoenicians and Greeks: decentralized multi-power-actor civilisations



Revitalized empires of domination: Assyria and Persia



The Roman territorial empire



Ideology transcendent: the Christian ecumene



A comparative excursus into the world religions: Confucianism, Islam, and (especially) Hindu caste



The European dynamic: I. The intensive phase, A. D. 800-1155



The European dynamics: II. The rise of coordinating states, 1155-1477



The European dynamic: III. International capitalism and organic national states, 1477-1760



European conclusions: explaining European dynamism - capitalism, Christendom, and states



Patterns of world-historical development in agrarian societies


Index