{"product_id":"a-peoples-history-of-the-world","title":"A Peoples History of the World","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Chris Harman\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Orient Longman\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2005\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 729\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8125028439\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom earliest human history to the Holy Roman Empire, from the Middle Ages to the enlightenment, from the Industrial Revolution to the end of the millennium, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt focuses on the development of technology, its impact on class structure and conflict, and shows how Marxism illuminates history in a way no other historical approach is capable of.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis magisterial study is essential reading for anyone interested in how society has changed and developed, and what the possibilities are for further radical change in the new millennium.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREVIEWS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have had many people ask me if there is a book which does for world history what my book a People’s History of the United States dos for this country (USA). I always respond that I know of only one book that accomplishes this extremely difficult task, and that is Chris Harman’s A People’s History of the World. It is an indispensable volume on my reference bookshelf.\u003cbr\u003e-Howard Zinn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChris Harman’s A People’s History of the World is a very welcome and largely successful attempt to produce a popular history of the human species, bringing out the interconnection between the development of modes of production on the one hand and class struggle on the other.\u003cbr\u003e-Robin Blackburn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChris Harman has produced an outstanding book, astonishing in scale and quality.\u003cbr\u003e-John Molyneux\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART ONE: THE RISE OF CLASS SOCIETIES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrologue: Before class\u003cbr\u003eThe Neolithic revolution\u003cbr\u003eThe first civilizations\u003cbr\u003eThe first class divisions\u003cbr\u003eWomen’s oppression\u003cbr\u003eThe first Dark Ages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART TWO: THE ANCIENT WORLD\u003cbr\u003eIron and empires\u003cbr\u003eAncient India\u003cbr\u003eThe First Chinese empires\u003cbr\u003eThe Greek city states\u003cbr\u003eRome’s rise and fall\u003cbr\u003eThe rise of Christianity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART THREE: THE MIDDLE AGES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe centuries of chaos\u003cbr\u003eChina: the rebirth of the empire\u003cbr\u003eByzantium: the living fossil\u003cbr\u003eThe Islamic revolutions\u003cbr\u003eThe African civilizations\u003cbr\u003eEuropean feudalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART FOUR: THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe conquest of the New Spain\u003cbr\u003eRenaissance to Reformation\u003cbr\u003eThe birth pangs of a new order\u003cbr\u003eThe last flowering of Asia’s empires\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART FIVE: THE SPREAD OF THE NEW ORDER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA time of social peace\u003cbr\u003e\u0026gt;From superstition to science\u003cbr\u003eThe enlightenment\u003cbr\u003eSlavery and wage slavery\u003cbr\u003eSlavery and racism\u003cbr\u003eThe economics of free labour\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART SIX: THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmerican prologue\u003cbr\u003eThe French Revolution\u003cbr\u003eJacobinism outside France\u003cbr\u003eThe retreat of reason\u003cbr\u003eThe industrial revolution\u003cbr\u003eThe birth of Marxism\u003cbr\u003e1848\u003cbr\u003eThe American Civil War\u003cbr\u003eThe conquest of the East\u003cbr\u003eThe Japanese exception\u003cbr\u003eStorming heaven: The Paris Commune\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART SEVEN: THE CENTURY OF HOPE AND HORROR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe world of capital\u003cbr\u003eWorld war and world revolution\u003cbr\u003eEurope in turmoil\u003cbr\u003eRevolt in the colonial world\u003cbr\u003eThe Golden Twenties\u003cbr\u003eThe great slump\u003cbr\u003eStrangled hope: 1934-36\u003cbr\u003eMidnight in the century\u003cbr\u003eThe Cold War\u003cbr\u003eThe new world disorder\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Illusion of the epoch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOTES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGLOSSARY \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFURTHER READING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINDEX\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Chris Harman \/ Orient Longman \/ Paperback","offer_id":68153670238576,"sku":"15319","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/15319.jpg?v=1793912406","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/a-peoples-history-of-the-world","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}