A people's history of the world / Chris Harman.

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Harman, Chris, 1942-2009

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: London ; Verso, 2017.Description: vii, 729 pages ; 21 cmISBN:

9781786630810 (paperbacks)

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D 20 H287p 2017

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Contents:

pt. 1: The rise of class societies: The neolithic 'revolution'-- The first civilisations-- The first class divisions-- Women's oppression-- The first 'Dark ages'-- pt. 2: 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-- pt. 3: 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-- pt. 4: 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-- pt. 5: 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'-- pt. 6: 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-- pt. 7: 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.

Summary: Examines the human history of the world through the lens of a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals

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"From the Stone Age to the new millennium"--Cover.

Originally published: London : Bookmarks, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1: The rise of class societies: The neolithic 'revolution'--
The first civilisations--
The first class divisions--
Women's oppression--
The first 'Dark ages'--
pt. 2: 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--
pt. 3: 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--
pt. 4: 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--
pt. 5: 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'--
pt. 6: 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--
pt. 7: 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.

Examines the human history of the world through the lens of a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals

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