| Author |
Harman, Chris, author.
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| Publication |
London ; New York : Verso, 2017.
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| Description |
xv, 728 pages ; 21 cm |
| Call # |
909 H |
| Note |
"From the Stone Age to the new millennium"--Cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 621-661) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
World history.
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World history. (OCoLC)fst01181345
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| Related To |
Reproduction of (manifestation): Harman, Chris. People's history of the world London : Bookmarks, 1999 1898876541 |
| ISBN |
9781786630810 (pbk.) |
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1786630818 (pbk.) |
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