The Sources of Social Power: Volume 2, The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760–1914
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 9/17/2012
EAN 9781107670648, ISBN10: 1107670640
Paperback, 844 pages, 22.6 x 15.2 x 4.8 cm
Language: English
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 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. Michael Mann sees human society as 'a patterned mess' and attempts to provide a sociological theory appropriate to this, his final chapter giving an original explanation of the causes of the First World War. First published in 1993, this new edition of Volume 2 includes a new preface by the author examining the impact and legacy of the work.
Preface to the second edition
1. Introduction
2. Economic and ideological power relations
3. A theory of the modern state
4. The Industrial Revolution and old regime liberalism in Britain, 1760–1880
5. The American Revolution and the institutionalisation of confederal capitalist liberalism
6. The French Revolution and the bourgeois nation
7. Conclusion to chapters 4-6
the emergence of classes and nations
8. Geopolitics and international capitalism
9. Struggle over Germany, I
Prussia and authoritarian national capitalism
10. Struggle over Germany, II
Austria and confederal representation
11. The rise of the modern state, I
quantitative data
12. The rise of the modern state, II
the autonomy of military power
13. The rise of the modern state, III
bureaucratization
14. The rise of the modern state, IV
the expansion of civilian scope
15. The resistible rise of the British working class, 1815–80
16. The middle class nation
17. Class struggle in the second industrial revolution, 1880–1914, I
Great Britain
18. Class struggle in the second industrial revolution, 1880–1914, II
comparative analysis of working class movements
19. Class struggle in the second industrial revolution, 1880–1914, III
the peasantry
20. Theoretical conclusion
classes, states, nations, and the sources of social power
21. Empirical culmination - over the top
geopolitics, class struggle, and World War I
Appendix.
Reviews of the first edition: 'The ambition of the conception is, against all conventional expectations, matched by the clarity and grandeur of the execution.' Times Literary Supplement