Contents

pp v-vi

List of contributors

pp vii-viii

1 - Introduction

pp 1-8

Part I - Theory and history

pp 9-10

2 - The evolution of the sources of social power, and some extensions

pp 11-37

3 - The return of big historical sociology

pp 38-61

4 - Taming the chief: from evolutionary theory to political ideology

pp 62-86

Part II - Political, economic, military and ideological questions

pp 87-88

5 - On political decency

pp 89-106

6 - Mann on neoliberalism

pp 107-116

7 - Nationalism and military power in the twentieth century and beyond

pp 117-142

8 - History, historical sociology and the problem of ideology: the cases of communism and neoliberalism

pp 143-163

9 - Mann's globalizations and their limits

pp 164-182

Part III - American exceptionalism

pp 183-184

10 - Ethnicity, class and the social sources of US exceptionalism

pp 185-208

11 - Mann's big picture of US social citizenship: “Road to World Empire” with Bob Hope

pp 209-226

Part IV - Empire

pp 227-228

12 - Mann and the problem of empire

pp 229-245

13 - Hegemonic power during the Cold War and beyond

pp 246-255

14 - The last empire? American power, liberalism, and world order

pp 256-278

Part V - Response

pp 279-280

15 - Response to the critics

pp 281-322

Index

pp 323-335