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The Sources of Social Power, Volume 2: The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760–1914

By Michael Mann

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1993
ISBN
052144585X, 9780521445856, 0521440157, 9780521440158
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9251082 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
824\824
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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. The author sees human society as "a patterned mess" and attempts to provide a sociological theory appropriate to this. This theory culminates in the final chapter, an original explanation of the causes of the First World War.

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