A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium [New edition] 9781786630810, 1786630818
Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming co
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English Pages xv, 728 pages ; 21 cm Year 2018;2017
Table of 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 --
Conclusion: Illusion of the epoch
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 --
Conclusion: Illusion of the epoch
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