The Sources of Social Power, Vol 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, Chinese and Korean
The Sources of Social Power, Vol II: The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760 -1914. Cambridge University Press, 1993, 830 pages. Translated into German, Spanish, Greek, Japanese and Chinese.
The Sources of Social Power, Vol III: Fractured Globalization. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
The Sources of Social Power, Vol IV: Universal Globalizations. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Other recent works include the following:
Incoherent Empire. London/New York: Verso Books, 2003, 256pp. Translated into German, French, Japanese, Italian, Spanish and Korean. 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.
Fascists. Cambridge University Press, 2004, 429pp. Translated into Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and German.
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, Italian and Chinese.
Power in the 21st Century: Conversations with John A. Hall. Polity, 2011, 184pp.