People's History of the World From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

Name: People's History of the World From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
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ISBN: 9781844672387

ISBN-10: 1844672387

ISBN-13: 9781844672387

Edition: 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Chris Harman

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The only comprehensive "bottom up" history of the world from the earliest human society to the twenty-first century. From earliest human society to the Holy Roman Empire, from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, from the Industrial Revolution to the end of the millennium, Chris Harman provides a brilliant and comprehensive history of the planet. Eschewing the standard histories of "Great Men," of dates and kings, Harman offers a groundbreaking counter-history, a breathtaking sweep across the centuries in the tradition of "history from below." In a fiery narrative he shows how ordinary men and women were involved in creating and changing society and how conflict between classes was often…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 4/17/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 736
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 1.936




The rise of class societies


Prologue: Before class



The neolithic 'revolution'



The first civilisations



The first class divisions



Women's oppression



The first 'Dark Ages'



The ancient world



Iron and empires



Ancient India



The first Chinese empires



The Greek city states



Rome's rise and fall



The rise of Christianity



The 'Middle Ages'



The centuries of chaos



China: the rebirth of the empire



Byzantium: the living fossil



The Islamic revolutions



The African civilisations



European feudalism



The great transformation



The conquest of the New Spain



Renaissance to Reformation



The birth pangs of a new order



The last flowering of Asia's empires



The spread of the new order



A time of social peace



From superstition to science



The Enlightenment



Slavery and wage slavery



Slavery and racism



The economics of 'free labour'



The world turned upside down



American prologue



The French Revolution



Jacobinism outside France



The retreat of reason



The industrial revolution



The birth of Marxism



1848



The American Civil War



The conquest of the East



The Japanese exception



Storming heaven: The Paris Commune



The century of hope and horror



The world of capital



World war and world revolution



Europe in turmoil



Revolt in the colonial world



The 'Golden Twenties'



The great slump



Strangled hope: 1934-36



Midnight in the century



The Cold War



The new world disorder


Conclusion: Illusion of the epoch


Notes


Glossary


Further Reading


Index