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

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

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  • Michael Mann
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover
  • 9781107031180
  • 9.1 X 6.2 X 2 inches
  • 2.7 pounds
  • Social Science > Sociology - General
  • English
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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. Michael Mann 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. 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.
The Sources of Social Power: Volume 2, the Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760-1914

Author Bio

Michael Mann has conducted research on various periods and issues in South Asian economic and social history from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. He has published numerous articles on environmental history. His research has recently expanded into the areas of urban history, urbanization and migration in the South Asian region. These investigations focus in part on questions of historiography. 

His “Geschichte Indiens vom 18. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert,” published in 2005, has become a standard introductory text on its subject.

Since April 1, 2010, Professor Mann has headed the Department of South Asia Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He studied South Asian History, Medieval and Modern History, Indology and German Language and Literature at the Universität Heidelberg, where he earned his doctorate in 1992 with a dissertation on the agricultural and environmental history of northern India. For his thesis on the development of the British colonial government in Bengal, he obtained his postdoctoral qualification in 1999. 

He has taught at the FernUniversität in Hagen, the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg, and the Global and European Institute of the Universität Leipzig. On a temporary basis in 2008/09, he held the professorship in Cultural Economic History at the Karl Jaspers Centre of the Universität Heidelberg.

 

Research Interests 

  • Telekommunikation und gesellschaftliche Transformation
  • Stadt- und Urbanisierungsgeschichte
  • Umweltgeschichte
  • Geschichte der Geschichtsschreibung und Geschichtstheorien
  • Migrations- und Arbeitsgeschichte

 

 

Source:  Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany - Department of South Asian History and Society

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