In the third volume of the analytical history of social power, Michael Mann begins his narrative with the global empires of the 19th century. and continues the global history of the 20th century. until 1945, Mann focuses on the interconnections of the development of capitalism, nation states and empires. Volume 3 also discusses the Great Divergence between the trajectories 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 reformed and democratic capitalism.