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University of Cambridge
The Sources of Social Power: Volume 3, Global Empires and Revolution, 1890-1945
At the American Sociological Association meeting of August 2013 this book was awarded the Barrington Moore Award for the Best Book of 2012 in the field of Comparative and Historical Sociology. It also received the Best Scholarly Book Award of 2012 in the field of Global and Transnational Sociology.
This book of around 500 pages is the third volume of Mann’s highly influential work The Sources of Social Power. Using his distinctive theory of the four sources of power, Mann offers a sociological account of global history from 19th century global empires to 1945. The book deals with the divergence between the West and the rest of the world, the two world wars, the Great Depression and the rise of American and Soviet power, among other things. It draws on a wide range of historical and comparative material and is the outcome of many years of research and writing.
