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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Why History Matters -- 1. Hunters and Farmers c. 2.5 million - 3000 BC -- 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 c. 3000 - 1000 BC -- The First Ruling Class -- The Spread of Civilisation -- Crisis in the Bronze Age -- How History Works -- Men of Iron -- 3. Ancient Empires c. 1000 - 30 BC -- 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 c. 30 BC - AD 650 -- 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 c. AD 650 - 1500 -- 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 c. AD 650 - 1500 -- 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 1517 - 1775 -- 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 1775 - 1815 -- The Enlightenment -- The American Revolution |
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The Storming of the Bastille -- The Jacobin Dictatorship -- From Thermidor to Napoleon -- 9. The Rise of Industrial Capitalism c. 1750 - 1850 -- 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 1848 - 1896 -- The Indian Mutiny -- The Italian Risogimento -- The American Civil War -- Japan's Meiji Restoration -- The Unification of Germany -- The Paris Commune -- The Long Depression, 1873-96 -- 11. Imperialism and War 1873 - 1918 -- 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 - 1928 -- 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 1929 - 1939 -- The Roaring Twenties -- The Hungry Thirties -- 1933: The Nazi Seizure of Power -- State Capitalism in Russia -- June 1936: The French General Strike and Factory Occupations -- The Spanish Civil War -- The Causes of the Second World War -- 14. World War and the Cold War 1939 - 1967 -- 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 |
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Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution -- 15. The New World Disorder 1968 - Present -- The Vietnam War -- 1968 -- 1968 - 75: The Workers' Revolt -- The Long Recession, 1973 - 92 -- What is Neoliberalism? -- 1989: The Fall of Stalinism -- 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 Beast -- Revolution in the Twenty-First Century? -- Whose Apocalypse? -- Timeline -- Sources -- Bibliographical Notes -- Select Bibliography |
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries |
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Print version: Faulkner, Neil Marxist History of the World : From Neanderthals to Neoliberals
London : Pluto Press,c2013 9780745332154
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World history.;Marxian historiography
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