The rise of classes and nation-states, 1760-1914
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The rise of classes and nation-states, 1760-1914
(The sources of social power, v. 2)
Cambridge University Press, 1993
- : hard
- : pbk
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  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 generalise, 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.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Economic and ideological power relations
- 3. A theory of the modern state
- 4. The Industrial Revolution and old regime liberalism in Britain, 1760-1880
- 5. The American Revolution and the institutionalisation of confederal capitalist liberalism
- 6. The French Revolution and the bourgeois nation
- 7. Conclusion to chapter 4-6: the emergence of classes and nations
- 8. Geopolitics and international capitalism
- 9. Struggle over Germany, I: Prussia and authoritarian national capitalism
- 10. Struggle over Germany, II: Austria and confederal representation
- 11. The rise of the modern state, I: quantitative data
- 12. The rise of the modern state, II: the autonomy of military power
- 13. The rise of the modern state, III: bureaucratization
- 14. The rise of the modern state, IV: the expansion of civilian scope
- 15. The resistible rise of the British working class, 1815-1880
- 16. The middle class nation
- 17 Class struggle in the second industrial revolution, 1880-1914
- , I: Great Britain
- 18. Class struggle in the second industrial revolution, 1880-1914, II
- comparative analysis of working class movements
- 19. Class struggle in the second industrial revolution, 1880-1914, III: the peasantry
- 20. Theoretical conclusion: classes, states, nations and the sources of social power
- 21. Empirical culmination - over the top: geopolitics, class struggle and World War I
- Appendix
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