4 Result(s)

Article

Have wars and violence declined?

For over 150 years liberal optimism has dominated theories of war and violence. It has been repeatedly argued that war and violence either are declining or will shortly decline. There have been exceptions, esp...

Michael Mann in Theory and Society (2018)

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Have human societies evolved? Evidence from history and pre-history

I ask whether social evolutionary theories found in sociology, archaeology, and anthropology are useful in explaining human development from the Stone Age to the present-day. My data are partly derived from th...

Michael Mann in Theory and Society (2016)

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Infrastructural Power Revisited

Michael Mann in Studies in Comparative International Development (2008)