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

Mann, Michael

ISBN 10: 052144585X / ISBN 13: 9780521445856

Published by Cambridge University Press, New York, 1993

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826 Pages Indexed. Interior text pages are near flawless. 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Sources of Social Power, Vol. 2: The Rise of Classes and Nation States, 1760-1914
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052144585X
• ISBN 13: 9780521445856
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

Book Description

Based on considerable empirical research, this second volume of an 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.