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 up to just before the Industrial Revolution in England.
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 up to just before the Industrial Revolution in England.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
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.
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.
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