The Sources of Social Power: Volume 4, Globalizations, 1945-2011

Michael Mann is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Power in the 21st Century: Conversations with John Hall (2011), Incoherent Empire (2003) and Fascists (Cambridge University Press, 2004). His book The Dark Side of Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2004) was awarded the Barrington Moore Award of the American Sociological Association for the best book in comparative and historical sociology in 2006.

• 1. Globalizations; 2. The post-war global order; 3. America in war and Cold War: class struggles; 4. Civil rights and identity struggles in the United States; 5. American empire during the Cold War, 1945–80; 6. Neoliberalism, rise and faltering, 1970–2000; 7. The fall of the Soviet alternative; 8. The Maoist alternative reformed; 9. A theory of revolution; 10. American empire at the turn of the twenty-first century; 11. Global crisis: the great neoliberal recession; 12. Global crisis: climate change; 13. Conclusion.

'No one is better than Michael Mann at synthesizing the best research and extracting key patterns, and no one is more interesting and informative at a high intellectual level. This volume explains why the World Wars were the structural turning points of the twentieth century; how the rise of identity politics and social movements defocused the class mobilization which most effectively produces universal social citizenship rights; why the crisis of climate change is very hard to stop because it is based on all the dominant institutions gone global - capitalism, autonomous nation states, and consumer rights. Mann also shows that atrocities caused by market transitions, in terms of deaths, are not very different from those of the most coercive ideological states. There is no better guide to our own times and future.' Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania