Power in the 21st Century (eBook)

Michael Mann is Professor of Sociology at UCLA

Introduction (John A. Hall).

Part One: Powers in Motion.

Chapter One: Capitalism.

Chapter Two: Militarism.

Chapter Three: Political Power.

Chapter Four: An End to Ideology?

Chapter Five: Patterns, Cages, Interstices and a Dialectic.

Part Two: The Nature of Social Change.

Chapter Six: States, Strong and Weak.

Chapter Seven: Group Agency.

Chapter Eight: Outcomes.

Chapter Nine: Contingencies of Modernity.

Chapter Ten: Our Looming Crisis.

Conclusion.

"A very stimulating and thought-provoking book."

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"This superb short book deserves the widest readership. A
profound understanding of the structures of power in our own age
allows Michael Mann, in a brilliant dialogue with John Hall, to
offer rich insights into the likely developments of an age that we
cannot yet know."

Sir Ian Kershaw, Sheffield University

"Michael Mann has exceeded all of his contemporaries in making
sociological sense of Western history, something he has done quite
systematically up through the outbreak of the First World War. In
these conversations with John A. Hall, he digresses from his nearly
completed volume on times since that to cast an insightful gaze on
current history, to speculate incisively about the shape of things
to come and to draw some major conclusions about history and
power."

Alexander Hicks, Emory University

"Wielding his four-dimensional template of power, Mann
illuminates the world history of recent times and the foreseeable
future. Events become turning points when leading power sources
intersect: capitalist crisis with world war in the early 20th
century; the stalemate of pluralist politics with ecological crisis
in the 21st. Mann displays here in summary strokes the continuing
relevance of his grand sociological vision."

Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania