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A Marxist history of the world : from Neanderthals to neoliberals / Neil Faulkner.

By: Faulkner, Neil.
Material type: TextTextSeries: Counterfire (Series): Publisher: London : New York : Pluto Press ; Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Description: x, 342 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780745332147 (Paperback); 0745332145 (Paperback).Other title: History of the world.Subject(s): World history | Historical materialism | Marxian historiographyDDC classification: 909.09767
Contents:
Hunters and farmers, c. 2.5 million-3000 BC -- The first class societies, c. 3000-1000 BC -- Ancient empires, c. 1000-30 BC -- The end of antiquity, c 30 BC-AD 650 -- The medieval world, c. AD 650-1500 -- European feudalism, c. AD 650-1500 -- THe first wave of bourgeois revolutions, 1517-1775 -- The second wave of bourgeois revolutions, 1775-1815 -- The rise of industrial capitalism, c. 1750-1850 -- The age of blood and iron, 1848-1896 -- Imperialism and war, 1873-1918 -- The revolutionary wave, 1917-1928 -- The Great Depression and the rise of fascism, 1929-1939 -- World War and Cold War, 1939-1967 -- The new world disorder, 1968-present -- Conslusion: Making the future -- Timeline
Summary: This magisterial analysis of human history combines the insights of earlier generations of Marxist historians with radical new ideas about the historical process. Reading history against the grain, Neil Faulkner reveals that what happened in the past was not predetermined. Choices were frequent and numerous. Different outcomes - liberation or barbarism - were often possible. Rejecting the top-down approach of conventional history, Faulkner contends that it is the mass action of ordinary people that drives great events. At the beginning of the 21st century - with economic disaster, war, climate catastrophe and deep class divisions - humans face perhaps the greatest crisis in the long history of our species. The lesson of A Marxist History of the World is that, since we created our past, we can also create a better future.
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"Bibliographical notes": p. 333-337.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 338-342).

Hunters and farmers, c. 2.5 million-3000 BC -- The first class societies, c. 3000-1000 BC -- Ancient empires, c. 1000-30 BC -- The end of antiquity, c 30 BC-AD 650 -- The medieval world, c. AD 650-1500 -- European feudalism, c. AD 650-1500 -- THe first wave of bourgeois revolutions, 1517-1775 -- The second wave of bourgeois revolutions, 1775-1815 -- The rise of industrial capitalism, c. 1750-1850 -- The age of blood and iron, 1848-1896 -- Imperialism and war, 1873-1918 -- The revolutionary wave, 1917-1928 -- The Great Depression and the rise of fascism, 1929-1939 -- World War and Cold War, 1939-1967 -- The new world disorder, 1968-present -- Conslusion: Making the future -- Timeline

This magisterial analysis of human history combines the insights of earlier generations of Marxist historians with radical new ideas about the historical process. Reading history against the grain, Neil Faulkner reveals that what happened in the past was not predetermined. Choices were frequent and numerous. Different outcomes - liberation or barbarism - were often possible. Rejecting the top-down approach of conventional history, Faulkner contends that it is the mass action of ordinary people that drives great events. At the beginning of the 21st century - with economic disaster, war, climate catastrophe and deep class divisions - humans face perhaps the greatest crisis in the long history of our species. The lesson of A Marxist History of the World is that, since we created our past, we can also create a better future.

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