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Michael Mann (1942-) is a British-born professor of Sociology at the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) and Visiting Research Professor at Queen's University Belfast. Mann holds dual British and U.S. citizenships. He received his B.A. in Modern History from the University of Oxford in 1963 and his D.Phil. in Sociology from the same institution in 1971.

Mann has been a professor of Sociology at UCLA since 1987; he was reader in Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science from 1977 to 1987. Mann was also a member of the Edvisory Editors Council of the Social Evolution & History Journal.

In 1984, Mann published "The Autonomous Power of the State: its Origins, Mechanisms, and Results," in the European Journal of Sociology. This work is the foundation for the study of the despotic and infrastructural power of the modern state.

Mann's most famous works include the monumental The Sources of Social Power and The Dark Side of Democracy, spanning the entire 20th century from the Armenian genocide in Turkey to the Nazi Holocaust and Rwanda's anti-Hutu extermination campaigns. He also published Incoherent Empire, where he attacks the United States' 'War on Terror' as a clumsy experiment of neo-imperialism.

Mann is currently working on The Sources of Social Power: Globalizations, the third volume in the series.^[1]

• Consciousness and Action Among the Western Working Class 1981. ISBN 0-391-02268-7
• The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760, Cambridge University Press, 1986. ISBN 0-521-30851-8
• The Sources of Social Power: Volume 2, The Rise of Classes and Nation States 1760-1914, Cambridge University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-521-44015-7
• Incoherent Empire, Verso, 2003. ISBN 1-85984-582-7
• The Autonomous Power of the State. European Sociology Archives, 1984.
• "Fascists". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 0 521 53855 6.
• The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 13-9780521538541.

1. ^ UCLA Department of Sociology, Faculty Biography: Michael Mann (Accessed 4th April, 2007)

• Professor Michael Mann - UCLA Department of Sociology webpage

• Conversation with Michael Mann - UC Berkeley transcript and webcast of interview with Michael Mann regarding his recent publication, Incoherent Empire.
• Ethnic Cleansing - The other side of the nation? - Review of Mann's Dark Side of Democracy by T.K. Vogel in the Neue Zurcher Zeitung, September 17, 2005
• Political Studies Review, Special Issue dedicated to Michael Mann's Fascists and The Dark Side of Democracy, September 2006 - Vol. 4 Issue 3 Page 247-395
• Webcast of Michael Mann in the conference "The Social and Political Relevance of Gellner's Thought Today" held at the National University of Ireland, Galway in May 2005.