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Michael Mann 出版社: Cambridge University Press 副标题: The Rise of Classes and Nation States, 1760-1914 出版年: 1993-9-24 页数: 828 定价: USD 45.00 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9780521445856
This second volume of Michael Mann's analytical history of social power deals with power relations between the Industrial Revolution and the First World War, focusing on France, Great Britain, Hapsburg Austria, Prussia/Germany and the United States. Based on considerable empirical research it provides original theories of the rise of nations and nationalism, of class conflict, ...
This second volume of Michael Mann's analytical history of social power deals with power relations between the Industrial Revolution and the First World War, focusing on France, Great Britain, Hapsburg Austria, Prussia/Germany and the United States. Based on considerable empirical research it provides original theories of the rise of nations and nationalism, of class conflict, of the modern state and of modern militarism. While not afraid to generalise, it also stresses social and historical complexity. The author sees human society as 'a patterned mess' and attempts to provide a sociological theory appropriate to this. This theory culminates in the final chapter, an original explanation of the causes of the First World War.
The ability to employ the labor of another was a crucial class badge. In 1851, in York, 60 percent of "small shopkeepers, lower professionals, farmers, etc." employed at least one servant, compared to 10 percent of skilled and virtually no semiskilled or unskilled workers (Armstrong 1966: 234, 272-3). My grandmother's accounts for 1901 reveal the nonworking wife of a man with a small gardening business paying "2s 6d" weekly wages (about the price of a chicken) to a girl who slept in the kitchen. (查看原文)
Preface to the new edition 范围上与其他三卷不同（Unlike them, it is not global.… Here I am resolutely focused from beginning to end on Europe and America. vii）19世纪欧洲及其白人定居者殖民地构成了构成了世界权力的 "前沿"，这也是世界历史上第一个由一个地区文...
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Master Piece, whose reputation shall be elevated to en par with that of Max Weber's.