{"product_id":"a-marxist-history-of-the-world-9780745332147","title":"A Marxist History of the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMagisterial analysis of human history, from the first hominid to the Great Recession of 2008. Written from the perspective of ordinary men and women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Enlightening and apocalyptic in equal measure' -- Guardian\u003cbr\u003e'This book will make you stop and think and give you a taste of what it must have felt like to be a firebrand buoyed up by righteous revolutionary zeal in October 1917. If you like your blood boiled, this is the history for you' -- Guy de la Bédoyère, historian and author of Roman Britain: A New History (2006).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Why History Matters\u003cbr\u003e  1. Hunters and Farmers c. 2.5 million-3000 BC\u003cbr\u003e    The Hominid Revolution\u003cbr\u003e    The Hunting Revolution\u003cbr\u003e    The Agricultural Revolution\u003cbr\u003e    The Origins of War and Religion\u003cbr\u003e    The Rise of the Specialists\u003cbr\u003e  2. The First Class Societies c. 3000-1000 BC\u003cbr\u003e    The First Ruling Class\u003cbr\u003e    The Spread of Civilisation\u003cbr\u003e    Crisis in the Bronze Age\u003cbr\u003e    How History Works\u003cbr\u003e    Men of Iron\u003cbr\u003e  3. Ancient Empires c. 1000-30 BC\u003cbr\u003e    Persia: the Achaemenid Empire\u003cbr\u003e    India: the Mauryan Empire\u003cbr\u003e    China: the Qin Empire\u003cbr\u003e    The Greek Democratic Revolution\u003cbr\u003e    The Macedonian Empire\u003cbr\u003e    Roman Military Imperialism\u003cbr\u003e    The Roman Revolution\u003cbr\u003e  4. The End of Antiquity\u003cbr\u003e     c. 30 BC-AD 650\u003cbr\u003e     The Crisis of Late Antiquity\u003cbr\u003e     Huns, Goths, Germans, and Romans\u003cbr\u003e     Mother-Goddesses and Power-Deities\u003cbr\u003e     Judaism, Christianity, and Islam\u003cbr\u003e     Arabs, Persians, and Byzantines\u003cbr\u003e  5. The Medieval World\u003cbr\u003e     c. AD 650-1500\u003cbr\u003e     The Abbasid Revolution\u003cbr\u003e     Hindus, Buddhists, and the Gupta Empire\u003cbr\u003e     Chinese History’s Revolving Door\u003cbr\u003e     Africa: Cattle-Herders, Ironmasters, and Trading States\u003cbr\u003e     New World Empires: Maya, Aztec, and Inca\u003cbr\u003e  6. European Feudalism\u003cbr\u003e     c. AD 650-1500\u003cbr\u003e     The Cycles and Arrows of Time\u003cbr\u003e     The Peculiarity of Europe\u003cbr\u003e     The Rise of Western Feudalism\u003cbr\u003e     Crusade and Jihad\u003cbr\u003e     Lord, Burgher, and Peasant in Medieval Europe\u003cbr\u003e     The Class Struggle in Medieval Europe\u003cbr\u003e     The New Monarchies\u003cbr\u003e     The New Colonialism\u003cbr\u003e  7. The First Wave of Bourgeois Revolutions\u003cbr\u003e     1517-1775\u003cbr\u003e     The Reformation\u003cbr\u003e     The Counter-Reformation\u003cbr\u003e     The Dutch Revolution\u003cbr\u003e     The Thirty Years War\u003cbr\u003e     The Causes of the English Revolution\u003cbr\u003e     Revolution and Civil War\u003cbr\u003e     The Army, the Levellers, and the Commonwealth\u003cbr\u003e     Colonies, Slavery, and Racism\u003cbr\u003e     Wars of Empire\u003cbr\u003e  8. The Second Wave of Bourgeois Revolutions\u003cbr\u003e     1775-1815\u003cbr\u003e     The Enlightenment\u003cbr\u003e     The American Revolution\u003cbr\u003e     The Storming of the Bastille\u003cbr\u003e     The Jacobin Dictatorship\u003cbr\u003e     From Thermidor to Napoleon\u003cbr\u003e  9. The Rise of Industrial Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e     c. 1750-1850\u003cbr\u003e     The Industrial Revolution\u003cbr\u003e     The Chartists and the Origins of the Labour Movement\u003cbr\u003e     The 1848 Revolutions\u003cbr\u003e     What is Marxism?\u003cbr\u003e     What is Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e     The Making of the Working Class\u003cbr\u003e  10. The Age of Blood and Iron\u003cbr\u003e      1848-1896\u003cbr\u003e      The Indian Mutiny\u003cbr\u003e      The Italian Risorgimento\u003cbr\u003e      The American Civil War\u003cbr\u003e      Japan’s Meiji Restoration\u003cbr\u003e      The Unification of Germany\u003cbr\u003e      The Paris Commune\u003cbr\u003e      The Long Depression\u003cbr\u003e  11. Imperialism and War\u003cbr\u003e      1873-1918\u003cbr\u003e      The Scramble for Africa\u003cbr\u003e      The Rape of China\u003cbr\u003e      What is Imperialism?\u003cbr\u003e      The 1905 Revolution: Russia’s Great Dress Rehearsal\u003cbr\u003e      The Ottoman Empire and the 1908 ‘Young Turk’ Revolution\u003cbr\u003e      1914: Descent into Barbarism\u003cbr\u003e      Reform or Revolution?\u003cbr\u003e      The First World War\u003cbr\u003e  12. The Revolutionary Wave\u003cbr\u003e      1917-1928\u003cbr\u003e      1917: The February Revolution\u003cbr\u003e      Dual Power: The Mechanics of Revolution\u003cbr\u003e      February to October: The Rhythms of Revolution\u003cbr\u003e      1917: The October Insurrection\u003cbr\u003e      1918: How the War Ended\u003cbr\u003e      The German Revolution\u003cbr\u003e      Italy’s ‘Two Red Years’\u003cbr\u003e      World Revolution\u003cbr\u003e      The First Chinese Revolution\u003cbr\u003e      Revolts Against Colonialism\u003cbr\u003e      Stalinism: The Bitter Fruit of Revolutionary Defeat\u003cbr\u003e  13. The Great Depression and the Rise of Fascism\u003cbr\u003e      1929-1939\u003cbr\u003e      The Roaring Twenties\u003cbr\u003e      The Hungry Thirties\u003cbr\u003e      1933: The Nazi Seizure of Power\u003cbr\u003e      State Capitalism in Russia\u003cbr\u003e      1936: The French General Strike and Factory Occupations\u003cbr\u003e      The Spanish Civil War\u003cbr\u003e      The Causes of the Second World War\u003cbr\u003e  14. World War and Cold War\u003cbr\u003e      1939-1967\u003cbr\u003e      The Second World War: Imperialism\u003cbr\u003e      The Second World War: Barbarism\u003cbr\u003e      The Second World War: Resistance\u003cbr\u003e      The Cold War\u003cbr\u003e      The Great Boom\u003cbr\u003e      Maoist China\u003cbr\u003e      End of Empire?\u003cbr\u003e      Oil, Zionism, and Western Imperialism\u003cbr\u003e      1956: Hungary and Suez\u003cbr\u003e      Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution\u003cbr\u003e  15. The New World Disorder\u003cbr\u003e      1968-present\u003cbr\u003e      The Vietnam War\u003cbr\u003e      1968\u003cbr\u003e      1968-75: The Workers’ Revolt\u003cbr\u003e      The Long Recession, 1973-92\u003cbr\u003e      What is Neoliberalism?\u003cbr\u003e      1989: The Fall of Stalinism\u003cbr\u003e      9\/11, the War on Terror, and the New Imperialism\u003cbr\u003e      The 2008 Crash: From Bubble to Black Hole\u003cbr\u003e      The Second Great Depression\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion: Making the Future","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404302721367,"sku":"9780745332147","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-marxist-history-of-the-world-9780745332147","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}