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: 9781107670648

ISBN-10: 1107670640

ISBN-13: 9781107670648

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. 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 generalize, it also stresses social and historical complexity.…

Book details

Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/17/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 844
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.90" long x 1.89" tall
Weight: 2.486
Language: English



Preface to the second edition



Introduction



Economic and ideological power relations



A theory of the modern state



The Industrial Revolution and old regime liberalism in Britain, 1760-1880



The American Revolution and the institutionalisation of confederal capitalist liberalism



The French Revolution and the bourgeois nation



Conclusion to chapters 4-6: the emergence of classes and nations



Geopolitics and international capitalism



Struggle over Germany, I: Prussia and authoritarian national capitalism



Struggle over Germany, II: Austria and confederal representation



The rise of the modern state, I: quantitative data



The rise of the modern state, II: the autonomy of military power



The rise of the modern state, III: bureaucratization



The rise of the modern state, IV: the expansion of civilian scope



The resistible rise of the British working class, 1815-1880



The middle class nation



Class struggle in the second industrial revolution, 1880-1914, I: Great Britain



Class struggle in the second industrial revolution, 1880-1914, II: comparative analysis of working class movements



Class struggle in the second industrial revolution, 1880-1914, III: the peasantry



Theoretical conclusion: classes, states, nations, and the sources of social power



Empirical culmination - over the top: geopolitics, class struggle, and World War I


Appendix