A history of power from the beginning to A.D. 1760

@inproceedings{Mann1986AHO,
  title={A history of power from the beginning to A.D. 1760},
  author={Michael Mann},
  year={1986}
}
  • M. Mann
  • Published 23 January 1987
  • History
Preface 1. Societies as organized power networks 2. The end of general social evolution: how prehistoric peoples evaded power 3. The emergence of stratification, states, and multi-power-actor civilisation in Mesopotamia 4. A comparative analysis of the emergence of stratification, states, and multi-power-actor civilisations 5. The first empires of domination: the dialectics of compulsory cooperation 6. 'Indo-Europeans' and iron: expanding, diversified power networks 7. Phoenicians and Greeks… 
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