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

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Author / Creator:Faulkner, Neil, author.
Imprint:London : Pluto Press, 2013.
Description:1 online resource (x, 342 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Counterfire
Counterfire (Series)
Subject:Marxian historiography.
World history.
HISTORY -- World.
Marxian historiography.
World history.
Wereldgeschiedenis.
Marxisme.
Geschichtsschreibung
Marxismus
Weltgeschichte
Society.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11188440
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ISBN:9781849648639
1849648638
9781849648653
1849648654
9781849648646
1849648646
9780745332147
0745332145
0745332153
9780745332154
Digital file characteristics:text file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Print version record.
Summary: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 numerous. Different outcomes - liberation or barbarism - were often possible. Rejecting the top-down approach of conventional history, Faulkner contends that it is the mass action of ordinary people that drives great events. At the beginning of the 21st century - with economic disaster, war, climate catastrophe and deep class divisions - humans face perhaps the greatest crisis in the long history of our species. The lesson of A Marxist History of the World is that, since we created our past, we can also create a better future.
Other form:Print version: Faulkner, Neil. Marxist history of the world. London : Pluto Press, 2013 9780745332147