A radical history of the world / Neil Faulkner.

"A radical history of the world draws on text originally published in A Marxist history of the world (Pluto Press, 2013)."--Title page verso

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hunters and farmers, c. 2.5 million-3000 BC -- The first class societies, c. 3000-1000 BC -- Ancient empires, c. 1000-30 BC -- The end of antiquity, c 30 BC-AD 650 -- The medieval world, c. AD 650-1500 -- European feudalism, c. AD 650-1500 -- The first wave of bourgeois revolutions, 1517-1660 -- Absolutist Europe and capitalist globalisation 1660-1775 -- The second wave of bourgeois revolutions, 1775-1815 -- The rise of industrial capitalism, c. 1750-1850 -- The age of blood and iron, 1848-1873 -- Imperialism and war, 1873-1918 -- The revolutionary wave, 1917-1928 -- The Great Depression and the rise of fascism, 1929-1939 -- World War and Cold War, 1939-1967 -- The world on fire 1968-1975 -- The new world disorder, 1975-2008 -- Capitalism's greatest crisis? the early twenty-first century -- Conslusion: Making the future -- Timeline -- Sources -- Bibliographical notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.

Print version record.

A history of the world that proves that nothing can stay the same.

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