A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium Book pdf

Chris Harman: born November 8, 1942 - died November 7, 2009 was a journalist, political activist, and British Marxist theorist, and a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labor Party in Britain. He was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Socialist Worker and later of the Journal of International Socialism. Harman was born into a working-class family and attended the University of Leeds, where he joined a group of Trotskyist socialists who later founded the Socialist Workers' Party. After that, he joined the London School of Economics with the intention of obtaining a Ph.D., but did not complete his studies. Harman died of a heart attack in Cairo, Egypt, while participating in the conference of the Center for Socialist Studies "Socialist Days". His Writings Harman has produced a wide range of books and articles on a variety of topics.

A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium book pdf by chris Harman

The best-selling comprehensive history of the world, from the perspective of struggling peoples throughout the ages—now with new material and a foreword by Howard Zinn
From the earliest human societies to the Holy Roman Empire, from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, from the Industrial Revolution to the end of the twentieth century, Chris Harman provides a brilliant and comprehensive history of the human race. Eschewing the standard accounts of “Great Men,” of dates and kings, Harman offers a groundbreaking counter-history, a breathtaking sweep across the centuries in the tradition of “history from below.”
In a fiery narrative, he shows how ordinary men and women were involved in creating and changing society and how conflict between classes was often at the core of these developments. While many scholars see the victory of capitalism as now safely secured, Harman explains the rise and fall of societies and civilizations throughout the ages and demonstrates that history moves ever onward in every age. This magisterial study is essential reading for anyone interested in how society has changed and developed and the possibilities for further radical progress.
“I have had many people ask me if there is a book which does for world history what my book A People’s History of the United States does for this country. I always responded that I know of only one book that accomplishes this extremely difficult task, and that is Chris Harman’s A People’s History of the World.” —Howard Zinn