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The Sources of Social Power Vol. 2: The Rise of Classes and Nation States 1760-1914
1993Best.-Nr. 16427New York: Cambridge University Press 1993. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6" x 9. 826 Pages Indexed. Interior text pages are near flawless. 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. The author 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. Cambridge University Press paperback
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