A Marxist history of the world : from Neanderthals to Neoliberals

A Marxist history of the world : from Neanderthals to Neoliberals /

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...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Faulkner, Neil (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Pluto Press, 2013
Series:Counterfire (Series)
Subjects:
Marxian historiography.
World history.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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.

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