CV - UCLA's Department of Sociology

1988 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award of the American Sociological Association;
and Honorable Mention (second place) in the Amalfi Prize for the best Social Science
book published in Europe - both for The Sources of Social Power. Volume I.
1984-85 UK Nuffield Foundation Fellowship to work on Vol. II of Sources.
1980-81 Personal Research Grant, UK Social Science Research Council to work on Volume I of
The Sources of Social Power.
1968-70 Research supported by UK Engineering Employers Federation and UK Social Science
Research Council.
1966-67 Research supported wholly by US Social Science Research Council.
1964-66 Research supported wholly by General Foods Corporation.
List of Books:
(1) The Sources of Social Power, Vol IV: Globalizations. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
(2) The Sources of Social Power, Vol III: Global Empires and Revolution 1890-1945. Cambridge
University Press, 2012, 510pp.
(3) Power in the 21 st Century. Michael Mann in Conversations with John A. Hall. Cambridge: Polity
Press, 2011
(4) The Dark-Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing. Cambridge University Press, 2005, 580
pp. Awarded the Barrington Moore Award of the American Sociological Association for the best
book in comparative and historical sociology for 2006. Translated into German and Italian,
forthcoming in Chinese and Turkish.
(5) Fascists Cambridge University Press, 2004, 429pp. Translated into Italian, Spanish, Portuguese,
forthcoming in German..
(6) Incoherent Empire, London/New York: Verso Books/ Norton, 2003, 256pp. (German edition
Campus Verlag; French edition Calman-Levy; Japanese edition, NTT; Italian edition, Piemme;
Spanish edition, Paidos; Korean edition, Simsan). The German edition won the Friedrich Ebert
Foundation Prize for the best book on politics published in 2003. Second English edition, with a new
preface, published 2005.
(7) The Sources of Social Power Volume II: The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760 -1914.
Cambridge University Press, 1993. 830 pages. Translated into German, Spanish, Greek, Japanese
and Chinese.
(8) States, War and Capitalism, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988. 240 pp. A collection of my essays, some
published, with new Introduction, pp vii-xiii, and new essay The Decline of Great Britain. pp 210-
37.
(9) The Sources of Social Power, Volume I: A History of Power from the Beginning to 1760 A.D. (New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1986). 540pp. Translated into German, Spanish, Greek,
Japanese and Chinese. Korean translation underway.
(10) Rosemary Crompton and Michael Mann, Gender and Stratification, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1986,
containing a co-authored Introduction pp 1-10, and my essay A crisis in stratification theory?
Persons, Households/Families/Lineages, Genders, Classes and Nations. pp 40-56.
(11) A Student Encyclopedia of Sociology (London, MacMillan, 1983). Editor, and writer of about 20
entries.
(12) R.M. Blackburn and Michael Mann, The Working Class in the Labour Market (London: MacMillan,
1979). Translated into Italian. 369pp.
(13) Consciousness and Action in the Western Working Class (London: MacMillan, 1973). Also
translated into Dutch, and banned in South Africa during the 1970s. 80pp.