{"product_id":"a-radical-history-of-the-world-paperback","title":"A Radical History of the World - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNeil Faulkner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Staggeringly ambitious.\"―\u003ci\u003eNew Internationalist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"One of the finest historians on the left.\"--John Newsinger, author, \u003ci\u003eThe Blood Never Dried\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Rejecting the top-down approach of conventional history, Neil Faulkner contends that it is the mass action of ordinary people that drives the transformative events of our many histories. This is a history of power, abuse, and greed, but also one of liberation, progress, and solidarity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the hunter-gatherers two million years ago to the ancient empires of Persia and China, and from the Russian Revolution to modern imperialism, humans have always struggled to create a better society than what came before. All over the world at numerous points in the past, a different way of life has become an absolute necessity, over and over again. This is a history of the humans in these struggles--the hominid and the hunter, the emperor and the slave, the dictator and the revolutionary. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Reading against the grain of mainstream histories, Neil Faulkner reveals that what happened in the past has never been predetermined. From antiquity to feudalism, and from fascism to our precarious political present, choices have always been numerous and complex, and the possible outcomes have ranged broadly between liberation and barbarism. His chapters include: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Hunters and Farmers\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*The First Class Societies\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Ancient Empires\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*The Medieval World\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*European Feudalism\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*The First Wave of Bourgeois Revolutions\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Absolutist Europe and Capitalist Globalization \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*The Rise of Industrial Capitalism\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*The Revolutionary Wave\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*The Great Depression and the Rise of Fascism\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*World War and Cold War\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*The New World Disorder\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Capitalism's Greatest Crisis? The Early Twenty-First Century\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In our fraught political present--as we face the loss of civil liberties and environmental protections, the rise of ethnonationalism, and the looming threat of nuclear war--we need the perspective of these histories now more than ever. The lesson of \u003ci\u003eA Radical History of the World is \u003c\/i\u003ethat, if we created our past, we can also create a better future.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNeil Faulkner\u003c\/b\u003e is a historian and archaeologist and the author of numerous books, including, most recently, \u003ci\u003eA People's History of the Russian Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Pluto Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 512\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.9 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51881630105888,"sku":"9780745338040","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/Fdd58m_FXm9780745338040.webp?v=1781828433","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-radical-history-of-the-world-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}