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A people's history of the world / Chris Harman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harman, Chris.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World history.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 729 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Verso, 2008.
- 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.
- Notes:
- "From the Stone Age to the new millennium"--Cover.
- Originally published: London : Bookmarks, 1999.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781844672387
- 1844672387
- OCLC:
- 181140144
- Publisher Number:
- 99938213857
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