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Distinguishing four sources of power – ideological, economic, military and political – this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. 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. Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Globalization imperially fractured: the British Empire 3. America and its empire in the Progressive Era, 1890–1930 4. Asian empires: fallen dragon, rising sun, 1890–1930 5. Half-global crisis: World War I 6. Explaining revolutions: phase I, proletarian revolutions, 1917–23 7. Half-global crisis: the Great Depression 8. The New Deal: America shifts left 9. Varieties of social citizenship in capitalist democracies 10. The fascist alternative, 1918–45 11. The Soviet alternative, 1918–45 12. Japanese imperialism, 1931–45 13. Explaining the Chinese revolution 14. The last inter-imperial war and the fall of the fascist alternative, 1939–45 15. Conclusion.