Sources of Social Power A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760

Name: Sources of Social Power A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760
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ISBN: 9781107635975

ISBN-10: 1107635977

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Edition: 2nd 2012

Authors: Michael Mann

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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. In this first volume, Michael Mann examines inter-relations between these elements from neolithic times, through ancient Near Eastern civilizations, the classical Mediterranean age, and medieval Europe, up to just before the Industrial Revolution in England. It offers explanations of the emergence of the state and social stratification; of city-states, militaristic empires, and the persistent interaction between them; of the world salvation religions; and of the particular dynamism of medieval and early…

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List price: $29.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/10/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 578
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.90" long x 1.42" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



Preface to the second edition



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, AD 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