A People's History of the World

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vii, 729 p.; 21 cm. Contents: Pt. 1: The rise of class societies: The neolithic 'revolution'. --The first civilisations. --The first class divisions. --Women's oppression. -- [more]

vii, 729 p.; 21 cm. 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.[less]