The sources of social power . Volume 1 A history of power from the beginning to AD 1760 / / Michael Mann [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Mann Michael <1942->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxvii, 549 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 306.09
• Soggetto topico: Social history; Power (Social sciences)
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; The sources of social power: VOLUME 1: A history of power from the beginning to AD 1760; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the new edition; Preface; 1 Societies as organized power networks; Ultimate primacy; Human nature and social power; Organizational power; Collective and distributive power; Extensive and intensive and authoritative and diffused power; Current stratification theory; ""Levels, dimensions"" of ""society""; Criticisms; Human beings are social, not societal; In which society do you live?; The promiscuity of organizations and functions; Organizations of power ; Example 1: the rise of the European pike phalanxExample 2: The emergence of civilizational cultures and religions; The four sources and organizations of power; The overall IEMP model, its scope and omissions; Bibliography; 2 The end of general social evolution: how prehistoric peoples evaded power; Introduction: the conventional evolutionary tale; The evolution of the first settled societies; The emergence of stabilized relations of collective economic power; The emergence of collective ideological, military, and political power ; Evolutionary theories of the origins of stratification and the stateFrom evolution to devolution: A voiding the state and stratification; Bibliography; 3 The emergence of stratification, states, and multi-power-actor civilization in Mesopotamia; Introduction: civilization and alluvial agriculture; Mesopotamia: irrigation and its regional power interactions; The emergence of stratification and the state to about 3100 B.C.; Civilization as federation; Irrigation agriculture and despotism: a spurious correlation; Militarism, diffusion, despotism, and aristocracy: true correlations ; Conclusion: Mesopotamian civilization as a product of overlapping power networksBibliography; 4 A comparative analysis of the emergence of stratification, states, and multi-power-actor civilizations; The Indus Valley civilization; Shang China; Egypt; Minoan Crete; Mesoamerica; Andean America; Conclusion: a theory of the emergence of civilization; Bibliography; 5 The first empires of domination: the dialectics of compulsory cooperation; Background: the growth of militarism and the marches; Sargon of Akkad; The logistics of military power; The infrastructure of political power ; The logistics of a militarized economy: the strategy of compulsory cooperationFive aspects of compulsory cooperation; Military pacification; The military multiplier; Authority and economic value; The intensification of labor; Coerced diffusion; The diffusion of ideological power networks: Mesopotamian religion; The dialectics of empire: centralization and decentralization; The comparative study of ancient empires; Conclusion: military power reorganized social development; Bibliography; 6 ""Indo-Europeans"" and iron: expanding, diversified power networks; The Indo-European challenge ; The Iron Age challenge
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, through ancient Near Eastern civilizations, the classical Mediterranean age and medieval Europe, up to just before the Industrial Revolution in England. It offers explanations of the emergence of the state and social stratification; of city-states, militaristic empires and the persistent interaction between them; of the world salvation religions; and of the particular dynamism of medieval and early modern Europe. It ends by generalizing about the nature of overall social development, the varying forms of social cohesion and the role of classes and class struggle in history. First published in 1986, this new edition of Volume 1 includes a new preface by the author examining the impact and legacy of the work.
• Titolo autorizzato: The sources of social power
• ISBN: 1-139-55758-0; 1-316-09034-5; 1-139-55633-9; 1-139-38130-X; 1-139-55508-1; 1-139-55263-5; 1-283-63753-7; 1-139-55137-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996247989003316
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