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A People’s History of the World
- From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 29 hrs and 44 mins
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A People’s History of the World
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Publisher's Summary
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.
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- Red Skippy
- 26-02-2020
socialism or barbarism!
excellent narration for a compact yet illuminating history, one rarely told from the perspective of workers
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- Anonymous User
- 26-08-2020
Essential and brilliant
This book is indispensable for any student of history. The physical book has many suggested further readings. I reread bits that I missed in the audio. Excellent and grand narration too.
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- Anonymous User
- 24-09-2017
Regret buying this title
Focussed on western civilisation. Not really about everyday people. More about political, socialist movements. Disappointed.
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- C. Martin
- 29-08-2017
Is this read by a robot?
I'm about 15 minutes into what sounds like a fascinating and long overdue book that has been written well and in a flowing and easy to read style. However the reader is absolutely mashing it up! He's reading it like a cross between an advert for a new film and child who pauses where there's no commas. If a narrator misses obvious cues to emphasis or in this case NO emphasis, it makes the thing unintelligible. I can't bear it. It needs to be re-done with a person that can read properly, following the conventions of punctuation!
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