Description
Distinguishing four sources of power - ideological, economic, military and political - this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. This third volume of Michael Mann's analytical history of social power begins with nineteenth-century global empires and continues with a global history of the twentieth century up to 1945. Mann focuses on the interrelated development of capitalism, nation-states and empires. Volume 3 discusses the 'Great Divergence' between the fortunes of the West and the rest of the world; the self-destruction of European and Japanese power in two world wars; the Great Depression; the rise of American and Soviet power; the rivalry between capitalism, socialism and fascism; and the triumph of a reformed and democratic capitalism.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction; 2. Globalization imperially fractured: the British Empire; 3. America and its empire in the Progressive Era, 1890–1930; 4. Asian empires: fallen dragon, rising sun, 1890–1930; 5. Half-global crisis: World War I; 6. Explaining revolutions: phase I, proletarian revolutions, 1917–23; 7. Half-global crisis: the Great Depression; 8. The New Deal: America shifts left; 9. Varieties of social citizenship in capitalist democracies; 10. The fascist alternative, 1918–45; 11. The Soviet alternative, 1918–45; 12. Japanese imperialism, 1931–45; 13. Explaining the Chinese revolution; 14. The last inter-imperial war and the fall of the fascist alternative, 1939–45; 15. Conclusion.
