Sources of Social Power Global Empires and Revolution, 1890-1945

Name: Sources of Social Power Global Empires and Revolution, 1890-1945
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ISBN: 9781107655478

ISBN-10: 1107655471

ISBN-13: 9781107655478

Edition: 2012

Authors: Michael Mann

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Distinguishing four sources of power – ideological, economic, military and political – this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. This third volume of Michael Mann's analytical history of social power begins with nineteenth-century global empires and continues with a global history of the twentieth century up to 1945. Mann focuses on the interrelated development of capitalism, nation-states and empires. Volume 3 discusses the 'Great Divergence' between the fortunes of the West and the rest of the world; the self-destruction of European and Japanese power in two world wars; the Great Depression; the rise of American and Soviet power; the rivalry between capitalism,…

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List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/17/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 520
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.90" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English




Introduction



Globalization imperially fractured: the British Empire



America and its empire in the Progressive Era, 1890-1930



Asian empires: fallen dragon, rising sun, 1890-1930



Half-global crisis: World War I



Explaining revolutions: phase I, proletarian revolutions, 1917-23



Half-global crisis: the Great Depression



The New Deal: America shifts left



Varieties of social citizenship in capitalist democracies



The fascist alternative, 1918-45



The Soviet alternative, 1918-45



Japanese imperialism, 1931-45



Explaining the Chinese revolution



The last inter-imperial war and the fall of the fascist alternative, 1939-45



Conclusion