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100 1 _aHarman, Chris,
_d1942-2009
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245 1 2 _aA people's history of the world /
_cChris Harman.
260 _aLondon ;
_bVerso,
_c2017.
300 _avii, 729 pages ;
_c21 cm.
500 _a"From the Stone Age to the new millennium"--Cover.
500 _aOriginally published: London : Bookmarks, 1999.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _apt. 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.
520 _aExamines 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
650 0 _aWorld history.
650 4 _aHistoria mundial.
856 4 2 _3Contributor biographical information
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