Format:
1 Online-Ressource (337 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781849648646
Series Statement:
Counterfire
Content:
Magisterial analysis of human history, from the first hominid to the Great Recession of 2008. Written from the perspective of ordinary men and women
Content:
Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Introduction: Why History Matters -- 1 Hunters and Farmers -- The Hominid Revolution -- The Hunting Revolution -- The Agricultural Revolution -- The Origins of War and Religion -- The Rise of the Specialists -- 2 The First Class Societies -- The First Ruling Class -- The Spread of Civilisation -- Crisis in the Bronze Age -- How History Works -- Men of Iron -- 3 Ancient Empires -- Persia: the Achaemenid Empire -- India: the Mauryan Empire -- China: the Qin Empire -- The Greek Democratic Revolution -- The Macedonian Empire -- Roman Military Imperialism -- The Roman Revolution -- 4 The End of Antiquity -- The Crisis of Late Antiquity -- Huns, Goths, Germans, and Romans -- Mother-Goddesses and Power-Deities -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam -- Arabs, Persians, and Byzantines -- 5 The Medieval World -- The Abbasid Revolution -- Hindus, Buddhists, and the Gupta Empire -- Chinese History's Revolving Door -- Africa: Cattle-Herders, Ironmasters, and Trading States -- New World Empires: Maya, Aztec, and Inca -- 6 European Feudalism -- The Cycles and Arrows of Time -- The Peculiarity of Europe -- The Rise of Western Feudalism -- Crusade and Jihad -- Lord, Burgher, and Peasant in Medieval Europe -- The Class Struggle in Medieval Europe -- The New Monarchies -- The New Colonialism -- 7 The First Wave of Bourgeois Revolutions -- The Reformation -- The Counter-Reformation -- The Dutch Revolution -- The Thirty Years War -- The Causes of the English Revolution -- Revolution and Civil War -- The Army, the Levellers, and the Commonwealth -- Colonies, Slavery, and Racism -- Wars of Empire -- 8 The Second Wave of Bourgeois Revolutions -- The Enlightenment -- The American Revolution -- The Storming of the Bastille -- The Jacobin Dictatorship -- From Thermidor to Napoleon -- 9 The Rise of Industrial Capitalism
Content:
The Industrial Revolution -- The Chartists and the Origins of the Labour Movement -- The 1848 Revolutions -- What is Marxism? -- What is Capitalism -- The Making of the Working Class -- 10 The Age of Blood and Iron -- The Indian Mutiny -- The Italian Risorgimento -- The American Civil War -- Japan's Meiji Restoration -- The Unification of Germany -- The Paris Commune -- The Long Depression, 1873-96 -- 11 Imperialism and War -- The Scramble for Africa -- The Rape of China -- What is Imperialism? -- The 1905 Revolution: Russia's Great Dress Rehearsal -- The Ottoman Empire and the 1908 'Young Turk' Revolution -- 1914: Descent into Barbarism -- Reform or Revolution? -- The First World War -- 12 The Revolutionary Wave -- 1917: The February Revolution -- Dual Power: The Mechanics of Revolution -- February to October: The Rhythms of Revolution -- 1917: The October Insurrection -- 1918: How the War Ended -- The German Revolution -- Italy's 'Two Red Years' -- World Revolution -- The First Chinese Revolution -- Revolts Against Colonialism -- Stalinism: The Bitter Fruit of Revolutionary Defeat -- 13 The Great Depression and the Rise of Fascism -- The Roaring Twenties -- The Hungry Thirties -- 1933: The Nazi Seizure of Power -- State Capitalism in Russia -- 1936: The French General Strike and Factory Occupations -- The Spanish Civil War -- The Causes of the Second World War -- 14 World War and Cold War -- The Second World War: Imperialism -- The Second World War: Barbarism -- The Second World War: Resistance -- The Cold War -- The Great Boom -- Maoist China -- End of Empire? -- Oil, Zionism, and Western Imperialism -- 1956: Hungary and Suez -- Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution -- 15 The New World Disorder -- The Vietnam War -- 1968 -- 1968-75: The Workers' Revolt -- The Long Recession, 1973-92 -- What is Neoliberalism? -- 1989: The Fall of Stalinism
Content:
9/11, the War on Terror, and the New Imperialism -- The 2008 Crash: From Bubble to Black Hole -- The Second Great Depression -- Conclusion: Making the Future -- The Wealth of the World -- The Beast -- Revolution in the Twenty-First Century? -- Whose Apocalypse? -- Timeline -- Sources -- Bibliographical Notes -- Select Bibliography
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780745332147
Additional Edition:
Print version Faulkner, Neil A Marxist History of the World : From Neanderthals to Neoliberals London : Pluto Press,c2013 ISBN 9780745332147
Language:
English
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