The longest history of Power. Book Review: MANN, Michael. The Sources of Social Power. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, I (1986) [2012 2 ], II (1993) [2012 2 ], III (2012), IV (2013). Michael Mann’s four volumes of his long-term quest on “the sources of social power”, which largely stands as a paramount history of human power from pre-history to the present acceleration of a process of multi-scale globalizations finally has arrived to an end, our complex present: the first volume of this series dates from 1986 and the last volume was very recently published in 2013 under the short subtitle of “Globalizations, 1945-2011”, also providing us a final theoretical conclusion of his long research effort. Let’s remember that this paramount editorial adventure started decades back in 1986 with a first very applauded volume offering “A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760”, while the second volume, dealing with “The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760-1914”, still was mainly extoled in 1993, but also convoked more criticism, namely from some, very few, historians since their majority ignored the work of a sociologist trying to “fish out of his box”. I must clearly stress that, as an academic and professional historian, albeit not for any kind of “class” solidarity, I can easily subscribe most historiography critics to Mann’s times four books, and I don’t even think that they are particularly interesting in presenting new historical perspectives or surprising novelties, and its major theoretical contribution is not basically on and for history. Therefore, nothing is new – and doesn’t really pretend to be – in terms of primary historical information and basic historiography interpretation; in some cases, historical summaries and theories are quite old and outdated. In fact, for example, the first widely welcomed volume still follows up that old Eurocentric diffusionist idea of a first human civilization born in Mesopotamia to inevitably travel towards West through the “biblical” lands and religions leading to classic Greek and Roman civilizations, then to unique European feudalism, thereafter to modern states and the singular maritime and commercial world expansion of Western Europe, prelude of the 1