A radical history of the world /
Offers a historical study of the world that contends that history is continually created and recreated by conscious, collective human action. Faulkner argues that the struggles of the common people--slaves, serfs, handloom weavers, mine workers, women fighting oppression, black people fighting racis...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Pluto Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Left book club
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| Classic Catalogue: | View this record in Classic Catalogue |
| Summary: | Offers a historical study of the world that contends that history is continually created and recreated by conscious, collective human action. Faulkner argues that the struggles of the common people--slaves, serfs, handloom weavers, mine workers, women fighting oppression, black people fighting racism, colonized people fighting imperialism--these struggles, occasionally fusing into mass revolutionary upsurges, drive the historical process. He states that this is an approach to history that emphasizes agency, contingency, and the existence of alternatives; an approach that rejects the view that war and empire are inevitable, that there is no alternative to the market, and that greed, bullying, and violence are universal. In other words, Faulkner contends that the course of history is not predetermined, its outcome is not inevitable; it can go in different directions according to what human beings do. |
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| Item Description: | "A radical history of the world draws on text originally published in A Marxist history of the world (Pluto Press, 2013)."--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | xi, 580 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 546-555) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0745338054 9780745338057 9780745338040 0745338046 9781786803276 pdf 9781786803290 kindle ebook 9781786803283 EPUB ebook |