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Información de la obraLas Fuentes del poder social por Michael Mann
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Pertenece a las seriesThe Sources of Social Power (Volume 1)
Este es el segundo volumen delas Fuentes de poder social en el que el autor elabora una teoría de las relaciones de poder en las sociedades humanas. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The author argues that there are four kinds of organized power networks: economic, military, ideological and political. As far as agrarian civilizations were concerned I thought this division worked well and the first half of the book was very interesting. However, I must admit that I failed to keep up in the second half. The author goes into a lot more detail in discussing Europe and England, which makes his analysis quite hard to read and understand. It's not made any easier by his style, which often tends to move deeper and deeper into the subject without pausing for any intermediate summaries. Even the summary at the end of the book seemed diffuse to me.
For the above reasons this seems like a book for professionals in historical sociology (for generations to come). To me it was a bit too difficult. If you want to actually benefit from reading this work, you should study thoroughly in European political, economic and religious history (about 1000-1800) before tackling it. In other words, it's a challenge but certainly worth the effort if you can put some work into it.