New Releases by Michael Mann

Warum werden Kriege geführt? Was ist ausschlaggebend für die Entscheidung zum Krieg? Michael Mann erzählt die Geschichte des Krieges vom antiken Rom bis zum Überfall auf die Ukraine, vom kaiserlichen China bis zu Auseinandersetzungen im Nahen Osten, von Japan und Europa bis zur postkolonialen Geschichte Lateinamerikas und zu den Kriegen der Vereinigten Staaten. Obwohl sich die Waffen und die Organisation des Krieges im Laufe der Zeit enorm gewandelt haben, hat sich der Charakter der Entscheidungsprozesse kaum verändert. Fast immer wurde und wird der finale Entschluss von sehr kleinen Gruppen von Machthabern getroffen, manchmal nur von einer Person. Charaktere, Emotionen und Ideologien sind ausschlaggebend. Doch auch Status, Ehre und Ruhm spielen nach wie vor eine große Rolle. Die meisten Herrscher, die Kriege beginnen, verlieren sie, und in historischer Perspektive ist die große Mehrheit der Staaten aufgrund von Kriegen untergegangen. Durch die meisterhafte Verbindung ideologischer, wirtschaftlicher, politischer und militärischer Analysen eröffnet der preisgekrönte Soziologe Michael Mann neue Perspektiven auf die Geschichte und Gegenwart von Kriegen.

NOW A NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Michael Mann, Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat and Miami Vice, teams up with Meg Gardiner to deliver Mann's first crime novel, an explosive return to the world and characters of his classic film Heat - an all-new story that illuminates what happened before and after the film. A Times Book of the Year 2022 'Michael Mann's HEAT is one of my all-time favourite movies. HEAT 2 is now one of my favourite suspense novels' JAMES PATTERSON Described by Michael Mann as both a prequel and sequel to the renowned, critically acclaimed film of the same name, HEAT 2 covers the formative years of homicide detective Vincent Hanna (Oscar winner Al Pacino) and elite criminals Neil McCauley (Oscar winner Robert De Niro), Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer), and Nate (Oscar winner Jon Voight), and features the same extraordinary ambition, scope, rich characterizations, and attention to detail as the epic film. This new story leads up to the events of the film and then moves beyond it, featuring new characters on both sides of the law, new high-line heists, and breathtakingly cinematic action sequences. Ranging from the streets of L.A. to the inner sancta of rival Taiwanese crime syndicates in Paraguay to a massive drug cartel money-laundering operation just over the border in Mexico, HEAT 2 illuminates the dangerous workings of international crime organizations and the agents who pursue them as it provides a full-blooded portrait of the men and women who inhabit both worlds. Operatic in scope, HEAT 2 is engrossing, moving, and tragic - a masterpiece of crime fiction from one of the most innovative and influential filmmakers in American cinema. PRAISE FOR HEAT 2: 'Sweep, self-confidence and a cinematic sheen make this the most immersive of reads' The Times 'A brilliant and riveting novel with rich and real characters and powerhouse storytelling...' Don Winslow 'An exciting, emotionally rich thriller, with just as much style and panache as Michael Mann's original classic heist movie' Adrian McKinty, #1 International bestselling author 'Easily one of the finest novels of the year!' Steve Cavanagh, #1 International bestselling author

A history of wars through the ages and across the world, and the irrational calculations that so often lie behind them Benjamin Franklin once said, “There never was a good war or a bad peace.” But what determines whether war or peace is chosen? Award-winning sociologist Michael Mann concludes that it is a handful of political leaders—people with emotions and ideologies, and constrained by inherited culture and institutions—who undertake such decisions, usually irrationally choosing war and seldom achieving their desired results. 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 masterfully combining ideological, economic, political, and military analysis, Mann offers new insight into the many consequences of choosing war.

Ao distinguir quatro fontes de poder nas sociedades humanas – ideológica, econômica, militar e política –, essa série traça suas inter-relações através da história. Este terceiro volume da história analítica do poder social de Michael Mann começa com os impérios globais do século XIX e continua com uma história global do século XIX até 1945. Mann foca o desenvolvi- mento inter-relacionado de capitalismo, Estados-nações e impérios, discutindo: a "Grande Divergência" entre os destinos do Ocidente e do resto do mundo; a autodestruição do poder europeu e japonês em duas guerras mundiais; a Grande Depressão; o aumento do poder americano e soviético; a rivalidade entre capitalismo, socialismo e fascismo; e o triunfo de um capitalismo reformado e democrático. O grande projeto de Michael Mann é um estudo das mudanças no poder ao longo da história humana e, neste terceiro volume, analisa em escala global a época devastadora das duas guerras mundiais.

Ao distinguir quatro fontes de poder nas sociedades humanas – ideológica, econômica, militar e política –, esta série traça suas inter-relações através da história. Este segundo volume da história analítica de Michael Mann aborda as relações de poder entre 1760 e a Primeira Guerra Mundial, com foco na França, Grã-Bretanha, Habsburgo, Áustria, Prússia/Alemanha e Estados Unidos. Com base em considerável pesquisa empírica, fornece teorias da ascensão das nações e do nacionalismo, do conflito de classes, do Estado e do militarismo moderno, enfatizando igualmente a complexidade social e histórica. Michael Mann vê a sociedade humana como uma espécie de bagunça padronizada e tenta fornecer uma teoria sociológica apropriada para isso. Essa teoria culmina com uma explica a primeira Guerra Mundial.

In this book, noted sociologist Michael Mann argues that the "new American imperialism" is actually a new militarism. Dissecting the economic, political, military and ideological resources available to the US, Mann concludes that they are so uneven as to generate only an 'incoherent empire' and increasing world disorder. The US is a military giant, though it is better at devastating than pacifying countries. It is a political schizophrenic, its personality split between multilateralism, unilateralism and an actual inability to rule over foreign lands or to control its own supposed client states. It is only a backseat driver of the global economy. It cannot steer it, but it prods poorer countries toward an unproductive and unpopular neo-liberalism.

Mörderische ethnische Säuberungen sind, so die zentrale These Michael Manns, die dunkle Seite der Demokratie. Sie sind eine mögliche Perversion der Demokratisierung, weil dem demokratischen Nationalstaat ein organizistischer Nationalismus anhaftet, der danach strebt, demos und ethnos, Staatsvolk und Abstammungsgemeinschaft, deckungsgleich zu machen – wenn nötig mit Gewalt. Michael Mann untersucht in empirisch dichten Fallstudien die Mechanismen der ethnischen Säuberung und ihre Umsetzung. Er behandelt den Siedlerkolonialismus in Nordamerika, den Massenmord an den Armeniern, die nationalsozialistische Vernichtungspolitik, die kommunistischen Gewalt unter Stalin, Mao und Pol Pot, den ethnischen Bürgerkrieg in Jugoslawien und den Genozid in Ruanda. Am Beispiel von Indien und Indonesien verdeutlicht er aber auch, weshalb multiethnische Konflikte nicht notwendigerweise in systematische Gewalt münden müssen. Die historisch-soziologische Analyse dieser Fälle zielt darauf ab, systematische Erkenntnisse und theoretische Erklärungen für die Entstehung mörderischer ethnischer Säuberungen herauszuarbeiten – nicht zuletzt, um politische Maßnahmen zu deren Verhinderung zu erarbeiten.

This comprehensive history of modern South Asia explores the historical development of the Subcontinent from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the present day from local and regional, as opposed to European, perspectives. Michael Mann charts the role of emerging states within the Mughal Empire, the gradual British colonial expansion in the political setting of the Subcontinent and shows how the modern state formation usually associated with Western Europe can be seen in some regions of India, linking Europe and South Asia together as part of a shared world history. This book looks beyond the Subcontinent’s post-colonial history to consider the political, economic, social and cultural development of Pakistan and Bangladesh as well as Sri Lanka and Nepal, and to examine how these developments impacted the region’s citizens. South Asia’s Modern History begins with a general introduction which provides a geographical, environmental and historiographical overview. This is followed by thematic chapters which discuss Empire Building and State Formation, Agriculture and Agro-Economy, Silviculture and Scientific Forestry, Migration, Circulation and Diaspora, Industrialisation and Urbanisation and Knowledge, Science, Technology and Power, demonstrating common themes across the decades and centuries. This book will be perfect for all students of South Asian history.

Das ökonomische System des Kapitalismus wird kollabieren, weil negative Konjunkturzyklen und politische Krisen zusammentreffen und Wachstum an Grenzen stößt. Umweltkrisen werden den Kapitalismus massiv unter Druck setzen, ebenso wie globale Machtkämpfe und der Kampf um Ressourcen. Die Mittelklassen werden ihre Arbeit an IT-Services verlieren und nicht mehr so konsumieren können wie heute. Eine wichtige Frage wird sein, ob eine internationale politische Steuerung den Marktliberalismus wird beeinflussen können. Fünf herausragende Sozialforscher diskutieren in diesem Buch die Optionen wirtschaftlicher und sozialer Entwicklung in den nächsten 30 Jahren. Historische Systemumbrüche und gegenwärtige Machtverhältnisse im Blick, entwerfen sie fünf Zukunftsszenarien für das 21. Jahrhundert und führen ihre Ergebnisse in einer Synthese zusammen.

The Great Recession has prompted many reassessments of the finance-driven economic order that achieved world dominance in the era of globalization. Yet just about every observer has focused on only two issues: why things went wrong, and what we need to do in order to return the system to stability. Virtually no one has questioned whether the system as such can continue. In Does Capitalism Have a Future?, a quintet of globally eminent scholars - Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann, Georgi Derluguian, and Craig Calhoun - survey the current global landscape and cut their way through to the most crucial issue of all: whether our capitalist system can survive in the medium run. Despite all its current gloom, conventional wisdom still assumes that capitalism cannot break down permanently because there is no alternative. The authors shatter this assumption, arguing that this generalization is not supported by theory, but is rather an outgrowth of the optimistic nineteenth-century claim that human history ascends through stages to an enlightened equilibrium of liberal capitalism. Yet as they point out, all major historical systems - from the Roman Empire to the Qing dynasty in China - have broken down in the end. In the modern epoch there have been several cataclysmic events - notably the French revolution, World War I, and the collapse of the Soviet bloc - that came to pass mainly because contemporary political elites had spectacularly failed to calculate the consequences of the processes they presumed to govern. At present, none of our governing elites and very few intellectuals can fathom an ending to our current reigning system. How possible is a systemic collapse in the medium-run of coming decades is the central question of this debate. While the contributors arrive at different conclusions, they are in constant dialogue with one another and therefore able to construct a relatively seamless - if open-ended - whole. Written by five of world's most eminent scholars of global historical trends, this ambitious book asks the biggest of questions: are we on the cusp of a radical world historical shift or not?

Este libro presenta el lado oscuro de la democracia, una nueva teoría sobre la limpieza étnica basada en los casos más terribles –los genocidios coloniales, Armenia, el Holocausto Nazi, Camboya, Yugoslavia y Ruanda– y en casos menos violentos –la primera Europa moderna, la India contemporánea e Indonesia. Tiene lugar donde el demos (democracia) se confunde con el ethnos (el grupo étnico), y se acentúa cuando dos movimientos etnonacionales enfrentados reivindican «su propio» estado en un mismo territorio. Este choque tiene como consecuencia interacciones complicadas entre líderes, militantes y “electorados potenciales” del etnonacionalismo. Entender este complejo proceso nos ayudará a diseñar políticas para evitar la limpieza étnica en el futuro.

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El prestigioso sociólogo Michael Mann argumenta en este libro que, en realidad, el «nuevo imperialismo estadounidense» no es más que un nuevo militarismo. Tras analizar los recursos económicos, políticos, militares e ideológicos de que dispone Estados Unidos, Mann llega a la conclusión de que son tan desiguales que sólo pueden dar lugar a un «imperio incoherente» y a un creciente desorden mundial. Estados Unidos es un gigante militar, aunque parece más cómodo devastando países que pacificándolos. Sufre de esquizofrenia política y de una personalidad dividida entre el multilateralismo, el unilateralismo y una evidente incapacidad para gobernar otros países o para controlar a sus supuestos Estados clientes. Se ha instalado en el asiento de atrás de la economía global. No puede conducirla y, aun así, empuja a los países pobres hacia un neoliberalismo improductivo e impopular. Por último, es un espectro ideológico que proclama al mundo los atractivos valores de la libertad, la democracia y la abundancia material en una brutal contradicción con su militarismo. El imperio incoherente también es analizado en plena acción, en Afganistán y en el transcurso de la guerra contra el terrorismo y contra los «Estados canallas», especialmente Corea del Norte e Irak. Su estrategia parece encaminarse únicamente a crear un mayor número de terroristas internacionales y a aumentar los deseos de algunos de adquirir armas de destrucción masiva, lo cual está provocando una verdadera «cruzada» contra los musulmanes. Mann sostiene que el mundo se convertirá en un lugar cada vez más peligroso si Estados Unidos no abandona esta trayectoria y adopta las estrategias de liderazgo global más realistas expuestas en este libro.

Fascists presents a theory of fascism based on intensive analysis of the men and women who became fascists. It covers the six European countries in which fascism became most dominant - Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania and Spain. It is a comprehensive analysis of who fascists actually were, what beliefs they held and what actions they committed. The book suggests that fascism was essentially a product of post World War I conditions in Europe and is unlikely to re-appear in its classic garb in the future. Nonetheless, elements of its ideology remain relevant to modern conditions and are now re-appearing, though mainly in different parts of the world.

In der Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts ging die bislang ausschliealich Handel treibende englische Ostindiengesellschaft in Bengalen schrittweise zur Territorialherrschaft uber. Durch gezielte Destabilisierung des politischen Systems in Bengalen gelang es der Ostindiengesellschaft schliealich 1765, die gesamte Steuerhoheit und die zivile Gerichtsbarkeit des Landes an sich zu ziehen. Der Kolonialstaat in Bengalen, wie er sich schliealich 1793 prasentierte, war alles andere als ein stabiles Gebilde; viel eher ein fragiler administrativer Uberbau. Nur eine ausgepragte Zusammenarbeit, vielschichtige Kooperation bis hin zur Kollaboration machte die Kolonialherrschaft uberhaupt moglich. Ganz wesentlich war jedoch die stabilisierende Wirkung des englischen Mutterlandes, das in Form seines Parlamentes und dessen verbrieften Rechten zur alleinigen Steuererhebung bald Einfluss auf alle finanziellen Belange der Ostindiengesellschaft ausubte. Letztlich war es die seit 1767 einsetzende Ausweitung der parlamentarischen Kontrolle gegenuber dem Handelsunternehmen, was den Kolonialstaat in Bengalen zu Wege brachte. "Der Autor hat ein Werk vorgelegt, das in der Weite des Zugriffs nicht nur in der deutsch-, sondern auch in der englischsprachigen Literatur seinesgleichen sucht." Periplus. (Franz Steiner 2000)

From the age of four, Angel Whisperer Kyle Gray has been blessed by the presence of angels who stood alongside him as he developed his talents to become the UK's youngest professional psychic medium at the age of sixteen. In this book, Kyle takes the reader on an emotional and uplifting journey into the world of angels, and reveals his own beautiful and inspiring story of learning to communicate with the other side, which started when his beloved grandmother passed over. This communication was to become his vocation and purpose, and Kyle is now known for the startling accuracy of his readings. Drawing on his years of experience helping people to share the wisdom and messages of the angels,The Angel Whispererteaches you ways in which you too can make your own connections, change your ways of thinking, and finally achieve everything you have ever dreamed of. An intensely personal and moving book, it offers comfort, wisdom and practical advice that will help transform your life.

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 generalize, 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.

This is the first part of a three-volume work on the nature of power in human societies. In it, Michael Mann identifies the four principal 'sources' of power as being control over economic, ideological, military, and political resources. He examines the interrelations between these in a narrative history of power from Neolithic times, through ancient Near Eastern civilisations, the classical Mediterranean age, and medieval Europe, up to just before the Industrial Revolution in England. Rejecting the conventional monolithic concept of a 'society', Dr. Mann's model is instead one of a series of overlapping, intersecting power networks. He makes this model operational by focusing on the logistics of power - how the flow of information, manpower, and goods is controlled over social and geographical space-thereby clarifying many of the 'great debates' in sociological theory. The present volume offers explanations of the emergence of the state and social stratification.

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. -- from back cover of Volume 3.

The Macmillan Student Encyclopedia of Sociology is a major comprehensive encyclopedia aimed at all students of social science. The book explains all the important sociological terms, theories, concepts and proper names, whether they come from the classic nineteenth-century traditions or from recent radical trends, from the realms of abstract theory to issues of immediate social concern. There are over 2000 entries, arranged in alphabetical order. All entries start with simple concise definitions but many go on to provide full-length original essays.

This book makes a comparative analysis of working-class consciousness in Britain, France, Italy and the United States and seeks to answer the question of whether the working class today is a potentially revolutionary force in the West. In France and Italy class conflict and working-class consciousness have reached a higher level of intensity than in Britain or the United States. Both Marxist and functionalist explanations for this are discussed, special attention being paid to the recent French Marxism of Althusser, Mallet and Touraine. Class consciousness is examined as a dynamic process by analyzing the "explosion of consciousness" which often seems to occur in turbulent strike situations. The author concludes that class conflict is more complex than either group of theorists suggest. Working-class consciousness and the relationship between labor and capital are found to be dualistic and fundamentally unstable. Revolutionary potential is greatest in situations of uneven economic and social development when the capital-labor contradiction may be reinforced by other social conflicts. This means that the Marxist claim that the working-class carries in itself the power to be a class for itself must be rejected.