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Lifelines from our past : a new world history
- Title
- Lifelines from our past : a new world history / L.S. Stavrianos.
- Author
- Stavrianos, Leften Stavros.
- Publication
- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 1997.
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- Description
- x, 290 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- This book offers an extraordinary interpretation of world history, from the paleolithic era to the present. Renowned historian L.S. Stavrianos conceptualizes human history into three categories: kinship societies, tributary societies, and capitalist societies. In each, he discerns and studies four "life-line" issues - ecology, gender relations, social relations, and war - that encompass the broadest areas of human experience.
- The revised edition projects forward to the twenty-first century, offering the author's views on possible future scenarios involving the same lifeline issues.
- Series Statement
- Sources and studies in world history
- Uniform Title
- Sources and studies in world history.
- Subject
- World history
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-273) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Kevin Reilly -- Introduction: Lifelines from My Past -- 1. Kinship Societies -- 2. Tributary Societies -- 3. Capitalist Societies -- 4. Human Prospects -- 5. World History for the Twenty-First Century.
- ISBN
- 076560180X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 97012880
- OCLC
- ocm36597848
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries