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The sources of social power. Volume 2, The rise of classes and nation-states, 1760-1914

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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 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.

Title The sources of social power. Volume 2, The rise of classes and nation-states, 1760-1914 / Michael Mann.
Edition New edition.
Publisher Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Creation Date 2012
Notes Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Cover
The sources of social power: VOLUME 2: The rise of classes and nation-states, 1760-1914
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface to the new edition
Bibliography
Preface
1 Introduction
The IEMP model of power organization
A revolutionary long century?
Social change: strategies, impure entwinings, unintended consequences
2 Economic and ideological power relations
Economic power: capitalism and classes
Ideological power relations
Conclusion
3 A theory of the modern state
Five theories of the state
Weber's political concepts: an institutional analysis
Nineteenth-century political institutionsDomestic policy
Foreign policy
Functional analysis: a polymorphous crystallization model
Higher-level state crystallizations
4 The Industrial Revolution and old regime liberalism in Britain, 1760-1880
The Industrial Revolution
Eighteenth-century classes
Classes in the economy, 1760-1820
A revolution in ideological power
Political sovereignty and representation
The political economy of the state
War and reform, 1760-1815
Reform, not revolution, 1815-1832
The triumph of old regime liberalism, 1832-1880
Bibliography5 The American Revolution and the institutionalization of confederal capitalist liberalism
The American colonies
Rebellion
War and ""revolution""
Constitutional settlement
American conclnsion
6 The French Revolution and the bourgeois nation
Economic and political power under the old regime
Ideological and military power in the old regime
Fiscal crisis and the growth of principled resistance
The emergence of the ideological elite
Revolution becomes class struggle
Revolution becomes national struggle
French conclusions
7 Conclusion to Chapters 4-6: The emergence of classes and nations1. From feudalism to capitalism
2. Pre-1792 militarism
3. Ideological power
4. Post-1792 militarism
8 Geopolitics and international capitalism
Theoretical perspectives
The determinants of power
Economic power and hegemony, 1760-1914
Anglo-French rivalry
The eighteenth century
Bonaparte's failed hegemony
The concert and balance of power, 1815-1880
Transnational capitalism, 1815-1880
Geopolitical and capitalist faltering, 1880-1914
9 Struggle over Germany: I. Prussia and authoritarian national capitalismThree rivals, three theoretical issues
""German"" development
The creation of the Kaiserreich: the Sonderweg
The Kaiserreich and state autonomy
A Prussian conclusion
10 Struggle over Germany: II. Austria and confederal representation
What do we call it?
Habsburg capitalism
Nationalism and representation, 1815-1867
Domestic politics in the dual monarchy, 1867-1914
Final hubris: military geopolitics, 1867-1918
Counterfactual regime strategies
German and global conclusions
11 The rise of the modern state: I. Quantitative data
Extent 1 online resource (xx, 823 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language English
National Library system number 997007877035605171
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