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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Military Power and War -- 2. Is War Universal? -- 3. Theories of the Causes of War -- 4. The Roman Republic -- 5. Ancient China -- 6. Imperial China -- 7. Medieval and Modern Japan -- 8. A Thousand Years of Europe -- 9. Seven Hundred Years of South and Central America -- 10. The Decline of War? -- 11. Fear and Loathing on the Battlefield I: From Ancient Times to the American Civil War -- 12. Fear and Loathing on the Battlefield II: The World Wars -- 13. Fear and Loathing on the Battlefield III: Communist Wars -- 14. Recent Wars in Muslim Countries -- 15. Possible Futures -- CONCLUSION: Patterns of War -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- 31-72 -- 73-98 -- 08_01-15 -- 16-59 -- 60-65 -- 09_01-31 -- 32-72 -- 73-97 -- 10_01-15 -- 16-58 -- 59-100 -- 11_01-41 -- 42-57 -- 12_01-24 -- 25-68 -- 69-108 -- 109-151 -- 13_01-42 -- 43-84 -- 14_01-41 -- 42-77 -- 15_01-06 -- Con_01-16.

Mann examines the history of war through the ages and across the globe - from ancient Rome to Ukraine, from imperial China to the Middle East, from Japan and Europe to Latin and North America. He explores the reasons groups go to war, the different forms of wars, how warfare has changed and how it has stayed the same, and the surprising ways in which seemingly powerful countries lose wars. In combining ideological, economic, political, and military analysis, Mann offers new insight into the many consequences of choosing war.

Mann examines the history of war through the ages and across the globe--from ancient Rome to Ukraine, from imperial China to the Middle East, from Japan and Europe to Latin and North America. He explores the reasons groups go to war, the different forms of wars, how warfare has changed and how it has stayed the same, and the surprising ways in which seemingly powerful countries lose wars. In combining ideological, economic, political, and military analysis, Mann offers new insight into the many consequences of choosing war.

A history of wars through the ages and across the world, and the irrational calculations that so often lie behind them Benjamin Franklin once said, "There never was a good war or a bad peace." But what determines whether war or peace is chosen? Award-winning sociologist Michael Mann concludes that it is a handful of political leaders-people with emotions and ideologies, and constrained by inherited culture and institutions-who undertake such decisions, usually irrationally choosing war and seldom achieving their desired results. Mann examines the history of war through the ages and across the globe-from ancient Rome to Ukraine, from imperial China to the Middle East, from Japan and Europe to Latin and North America. He explores the reasons groups go to war, the different forms of wars, how warfare has changed and how it has stayed the same, and the surprising ways in which seemingly powerful countries lose wars. In masterfully combining ideological, economic, political, and military analysis, Mann offers new insight into the many consequences of choosing war

Generally, the history of telegraphy has been written from a technological perspective. In contrast, this book specialises on the social, cultural, and political consequences of the telegraph. British India between 1850 and 1930 serves as an example in how far and to what extent telecommunication influenced, shaped and transformed the British Indian multiple public spheres as to the emergence of an all-India public sphere after the turn of the nineteenth century. As an intrinsic part of this transformation, newspaper reportage in British India underwent massive changes as that was the case in many other countries of the world in the Age of Globalisation. It is this global context which places the study not just in an Indian national context, but in an international setting. Against this background it is also argued that the emergence of the Indian national movement took place in a worldwide connected and entangled communication context that deeply influenced the press landscape of British India as it did the imagination of an Indian nation in an internationally organised world

Cover; The sources of social power; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Globalizations; 2 The postwar global order; The end of colonialism; Postcolonial postscript; American Empire in the cold war; The economic pillar: The Bretton Woods System; The imperial and ideological pillar: The cold war; MAD and the decline of war; 3 America in war and cold war, 1945-1970: Class conflicts; The impact of World War II; Wartime labor relations: Corporatism and union growth; Postwar planning: Commercial Keynesianism, military-industrial complex; The Labor Movement: Stagnation and decline; Anticommunist ideology

Distinguishing four sources of power – ideological, economic, military and political – this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. This fourth volume covers the period from 1945 to the present, focusing on the three major pillars of post-war global order: capitalism, the nation-state system and the sole remaining empire of the world, the United States. In the course of this period, capitalism, nation-states and empires interacted with one another and were transformed. Mann's key argument is that globalization is not just a single process, because there are globalizations of all four sources of social power, each of which has a different rhythm of development. Topics include the rise and beginnings of decline of the American Empire, the fall or transformation of communism (respectively, the Soviet Union and China), the shift from neo-Keynesianism to neoliberalism, and the three great crises emerging in this period – nuclear weapons, the great recession and climate change

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