A People’s History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium - Chris Harman Audiobook
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Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. Interacting with the forces of technological change as well as the impact of powerful individuals and revolutionary ideas, these societies have engendered events familiar to every schoolchild - from the empires of antiquity to the world wars of the 20th century.
In a bravura conclusion, Chris Harman exposes the reductive complacency of contemporary capitalism, and asks, in a world riven as never before by suffering and inequality, why we imagine that it can - or should - survive much longer. Ambitious, provocative and invigorating, A People’s History of the World delivers a vital corrective to traditional history, as well as a powerful sense of the deep currents of humanity which surge beneath the froth of government.
“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. It is an indispensable volume on my reference bookshelf.” (Howard Zinn)
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This post has 15 comments with rating of 4/5
June 30th, 2020
There’s still no substitute for proper, balanced historiography - but it’s always interesting to see a writer take a different - sometimes creatively counterfactual - approach. The reader of history must cultivate the knowledge & skills in order to measure & detect the framing deployed in any such politicised effort. Thanks!
June 30th, 2020
Socialism is the answer for anything - probably because it should work so well. Too bad all the previous efforts have not been True Socialism.
June 30th, 2020
This is no History; this is Historicism.
“In memory of the countless men, women and children of all creeds or nations or races who fell victims to the fascist and communist belief in
Inexorable Laws of Historical Destiny.”
Karl Popper - POVERTY OF HISTORICISM
July 1st, 2020
True socialism has been tried in Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, China, Cambodia. Stop with that No-True-Scotsman garbage.
This book is nothing but lies and fever pitch dreams.
July 1st, 2020
@DanielGlad:
And the true Scotsman? Where does he live?
Nobody has ever tried “true” socialism because it’s practically impossible. This practical impossibility is why all attempts at creating socialist states, be it true attempts or just the old fashioned totalitarianism, must always fail. The closest to “true” socialism that has ever been implemented, are tiny socialist communes established in Scandinavian countries in the 2nd half of the XXth century.
July 1st, 2020
ah, “True Socialism”, the phlogiston and luminiferous aether of political quacks
July 5th, 2020
Always funny to see how many anti-communists there are on piracy websites, defending the regime they themselves subvert with their piracy. If capitalism works so well why are you here?
Ridiculous this “history / historicism” split, as if what is accepted hegemonically as history is undistorted, somehow.
There’s a lot of reflection lacking here.
July 5th, 2020
Isn’t piracy a challenge to the convictions of all people, across the left/right spectrum? Shouldn’t the person who considers themselves to be on the “left” believe that all workers are entitled to the fruits of their labour? Why then deprive them of those rewards by engaging in piracy? People always try to get around things - all people indulge in hypocrisy.
Drawing extremely politicised, ‘useful’ conclusions from a selective, partial survey of historcal events is always to be avoided in historiography. That is a reasonably good guide, at all times. The factual, historical record should never be mere fodder for some ephemeral, political ideology. Such an activist, militant, mobilising approach lacks all educational value, as it only tells us about the doctrinaire agenda of the theorist, nothing of historical fact.
Objective, dispassionate scholarship may not be strictly attainable; however, there has to be a sincere effort to achieve it. Transparent, fatuous propaganda is an utterly vacuous exercise. The very notion of fascist/Marxist-authored “history” is entirely risible. Anyone interested in consuming such matter may as well just confine themselves to febrile political tracts. Proper historiography has to be a question of balance & degree.
July 6th, 2020
Piracy shouldn’t be a big concern for the left. Rather, free knowledge shared widely should be the goal; there isn’t a need to connect any individual’s output to their ability to survive. There isn’t a way to BUY a more just world, however much money Bono put into Project Red — exercising disdain for commerce is a valid position for a leftist and hypocrisy for somebody on the right.
All history is politicised — you won’t be able to present an example that isn’t. Hegemonic interpretations of history aren’t easily discernable by most as politicised because that is how hegemony works. But why bother remonstrating with someone who thinks fascism and Marxism are only a forward slash apart.
July 6th, 2020
Fascism/Marxism, or any variation thereof. It’s comprehensive, as it encompasses those ideologies supporting the increase of the power of the State, and the consequent, corresponding diminishment of the individual. They are not exactly the same, but far too many continuities exist in their operation & the historical record to buttress their artificial antithesis.
The relativisation of historiography is a self-refuting concept. As I said, the proper study & navigation of the sources has to be a question of balance & degree in approach. Where it veers towards propaganda is when it ceases to be academic, valid historiography. It is also when it ceases to have any worthwhile, rational function. Merely contrast an Ian Kershaw or a Barbara Tuchman with any Marxist “historian” or theorist of history. If all within the discipline were, to the same degree & extent, wholly, fatally politicised & prejudiced, how can a Marxist history possess any cogent credibility? They would, by your own criterion, be completely mendacious & spurious.
All who use the internet (and libraries & schools, to an extent) can be said to consume free knowledge. This does not present a great existential challenge. However, how is there not a need to connect an individual’s output to their ability to survive? Adults substantially do need to support themselves, to eat, and so forth. We have to make provision; crops do not grow themselves. The essentials of life must be produced, elsewise - no survival. Moreover, you actually reject charitable efforts as a means of justly alleviating want & suffering? Forced famines benefit no one (save, p’haps, the despots). Hypocrisy travels unconfined right across that spectrum.
Most people are rational centrists, who wholeheartedly & cheerfully disdain all extremist, toxic, ideological theories - and their proven evil practice - yours, theirs - always a distinction sans a difference.
July 10th, 2020
Communisn sucks prove me wrong
July 10th, 2020
Don’t leave us on such a cliffcliffhanger.
July 20th, 2020
so the elephant in the room here is that Marxism I will NEVER work because…feel the drama build here…because people are and will always be deeply flawed and full of jealousy and irrationalities that will prevent people from acting selflessly and “for the good of all”-ly that any sort of shared ownership political scheme would require.
ambitious people will ALWAYS want more then the others around them…THAT IS HUMAN NATURE AND IT MUST BE DELT WITH. Marxists just try to hand-wave away this essential truth. Capitalism, yes WITH ALL ITS FLAWS, is OUTSTANDING on dealing with this core reality, because in almost all cases, that hard working ambitious person will invent something THAT WILL MAKE EVERYONE’S LIFE BETTER, NOT JUST HIS AND HIS POLITICAL CRONIES.. because the only way to get filthy rich is to do that!
July 6th, 2021
Great book. Love seeing the same brainwashed goons on every leftist book using words they can’t even define. MARXISM BAD, VOOVOOZUELA!! Good thing the economic gears of history turn despite the grunting of these pigs going to their slaughter.
September 14th, 2021
Excellent - much needed!
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