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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.

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

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

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 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

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

Cover -- The sources of social power -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- The Sources of Social Power -- 2 Globalization imperially fractured: The British Empire -- Introduction: Types of empire -- Why were the Europeans so good at imperialism? -- Did the British empire do anyone any good? -- British expansion and military power -- Economic power relations: A global economy? -- The jewel in the crown: Economic power relations in India -- Political power relations in the colonies -- Ideological power relations in the colonies -- The weakening of empires -- 3 America and its empire in the Progressive Era, 1890-1930 -- Imperialism phase 1: Continental empire, 1783-1883 -- The Second Industrial Revolution -- The Progressives: Modernization versus redistribution -- Labor movement but no working class -- Redistributions achieved:Education, gender -- Racial regress -- The conservative 1920s -- Imperialism phase 2: Hemispheric empire 1898-1930s -- The Cuban colony -- The Filipino colony -- Why colonies were temporary -- Informal empire with gunboats -- Conclusion -- 4 Asian empires: Fallen dragon, rising sun -- Introduction: The Western Threat -- The rising sun -- The emergence of japanese imperialism -- Enfeebled dragon -- Japan: Colonial sunshine -- The Japanese debate over imperialism -- Conclusion to Chapters 2-4: Three empires -- 5 Half-global crisis: World War I -- Why did the Soldiers Fight? -- Total war -- The impact on civilians: Support for the war -- The impact on civilians: Suffering and class conflict -- Conclusion: A pointless Great War -- 6 Explaining revolutions: Phase 1, proletarian revolutions, 1917-1923 -- Introduction: Theories of revolution -- Reform and revolution in the early twentieth century -- The Bolshevik Revolution -- War and European labor movements.