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Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760

Mann, Michael
Innbundet / 2012 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781107031173
Publisert
2012-09-17
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
900 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
158 mm
Dybde
35 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
576

Forfatter
Mann, Michael

Om bidragsyterne

Michael Mann is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Power in the 21st Century: Conversations with John Hall (2011), Incoherent Empire (2003) and Fascists (Cambridge University Press, 2004). His book The Dark Side of Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2004) was awarded the Barrington Moore Award of the American Sociological Association for the best book in comparative and historical sociology in 2006.

Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760

Mann, Michael
Innbundet / 2012 / Engelsk
Mann, Michael
Innbundet / 2012 / Engelsk
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Reviews of the first edition: 'The ambition of the conception is, against all conventional expectations, matched by the clarity and grandeur of the execution.' The Times Literary Supplement

'This work offers a treasure trove of facts and interpretations that will be useful to readers in many disciplines …' Choice

'This is a book in the grand Weberian tradition. Mann's conceptual skills and historical grasp are virtuosic and the scope of his enterprise is truly impressive.' Politics and Society

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'… an impressively learned, wise, and judicious study. It is a major work – perhaps a great work – and will be a landmark, for sure.' William H. McNeill, University of Chicago

'… a unique brand of historical sociology that is refreshingly iconoclastic, remarkably complex, and breathtakingly ambitious … a must-read for comparative and historical sociologists.' Contemporary Sociology

Distinguishing four sources of power in human societies – ideological, economic, military and political – The Sources of Social Power traces their interrelations throughout human history. In this first volume, Michael Mann examines interrelations between these elements from neolithic times, through ancient Near Eastern civilizations, the classical Mediterranean age and medieval Europe, up to just before the Industrial Revolution in England. It offers explanations of the emergence of the state and social stratification; of city-states, militaristic empires and the persistent interaction between them; of the world salvation religions; and of the particular dynamism of medieval and early modern Europe. It ends by generalizing about the nature of overall social development, the varying forms of social cohesion and the role of classes and class struggle in history. First published in 1986, this new edition of Volume 1 includes a new preface by the author examining the impact and legacy of the work.
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Preface to the second edition; 1. Societies as organized power networks; 2. The end of general social evolution: how prehistoric peoples evaded power; 3. The emergence of stratification, states and multi-power-actor civilisation in Mesopotamia; 4. A comparative analysis of the emergence of stratification, states and multi-power-actor civilisations; 5. The first empires of domination: the dialectics of compulsory cooperation; 6. 'Indo-Europeans' and iron: expanding, diversified power networks; 7. Phoenicians and Greeks: decentralized multi-power-actor civilisations; 8. Revitalized empires of domination: Assyria and Persia; 9. The Roman territorial empire; 10. Ideology transcendent: the Christian ecumene; 11. A comparative excursus into the world religions: Confucianism, Islam, and (especially) Hindu caste; 12. The European dynamic: I. the intensive phase, AD 800–1155; 13. The European dynamics: II. the rise of coordinating states, 1155–1477; 14. The European dynamic: III. international capitalism and organic national states, 1477–1760; 15. European conclusions: explaining European dynamism – capitalism, Christendom, and states; 16. Patterns of world-historical development in agrarian societies; Index.
Les mer
Reviews of the first edition: 'The ambition of the conception is, against all conventional expectations, matched by the clarity and grandeur of the execution.' The Times Literary Supplement
Volume 1 examines interrelations between sources of power from neolithic times up to just before the Industrial Revolution in England.

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Reviews of the first edition: 'The ambition of the conception is, against all conventional expectations, matched by the clarity and grandeur of the execution.' The Times Literary Supplement

'This work offers a treasure trove of facts and interpretations that will be useful to readers in many disciplines …' Choice

'This is a book in the grand Weberian tradition. Mann's conceptual skills and historical grasp are virtuosic and the scope of his enterprise is truly impressive.' Politics and Society

Se alle

'… an impressively learned, wise, and judicious study. It is a major work – perhaps a great work – and will be a landmark, for sure.' William H. McNeill, University of Chicago

'… a unique brand of historical sociology that is refreshingly iconoclastic, remarkably complex, and breathtakingly ambitious … a must-read for comparative and historical sociologists.' Contemporary Sociology

Distinguishing four sources of power in human societies – ideological, economic, military and political – The Sources of Social Power traces their interrelations throughout human history. In this first volume, Michael Mann examines interrelations between these elements from neolithic times, through ancient Near Eastern civilizations, the classical Mediterranean age and medieval Europe, up to just before the Industrial Revolution in England. It offers explanations of the emergence of the state and social stratification; of city-states, militaristic empires and the persistent interaction between them; of the world salvation religions; and of the particular dynamism of medieval and early modern Europe. It ends by generalizing about the nature of overall social development, the varying forms of social cohesion and the role of classes and class struggle in history. First published in 1986, this new edition of Volume 1 includes a new preface by the author examining the impact and legacy of the work.
Les mer
Preface to the second edition; 1. Societies as organized power networks; 2. The end of general social evolution: how prehistoric peoples evaded power; 3. The emergence of stratification, states and multi-power-actor civilisation in Mesopotamia; 4. A comparative analysis of the emergence of stratification, states and multi-power-actor civilisations; 5. The first empires of domination: the dialectics of compulsory cooperation; 6. 'Indo-Europeans' and iron: expanding, diversified power networks; 7. Phoenicians and Greeks: decentralized multi-power-actor civilisations; 8. Revitalized empires of domination: Assyria and Persia; 9. The Roman territorial empire; 10. Ideology transcendent: the Christian ecumene; 11. A comparative excursus into the world religions: Confucianism, Islam, and (especially) Hindu caste; 12. The European dynamic: I. the intensive phase, AD 800–1155; 13. The European dynamics: II. the rise of coordinating states, 1155–1477; 14. The European dynamic: III. international capitalism and organic national states, 1477–1760; 15. European conclusions: explaining European dynamism – capitalism, Christendom, and states; 16. Patterns of world-historical development in agrarian societies; Index.
Les mer
Reviews of the first edition: 'The ambition of the conception is, against all conventional expectations, matched by the clarity and grandeur of the execution.' The Times Literary Supplement
Volume 1 examines interrelations between sources of power from neolithic times up to just before the Industrial Revolution in England.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781107031173
Publisert
2012-09-17
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
900 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
158 mm
Dybde
35 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
576

Forfatter
Mann, Michael

Om bidragsyterne

Michael Mann is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Power in the 21st Century: Conversations with John Hall (2011), Incoherent Empire (2003) and Fascists (Cambridge University Press, 2004). His book The Dark Side of Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2004) was awarded the Barrington Moore Award of the American Sociological Association for the best book in comparative and historical sociology in 2006.

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