History is a weapon. The powerful have their version of events, the people have another. And if we understand how the past was forged, we arm ourselves to change the future tells us historian Neil Faulkner. He argues that who controls the surplus created by society calls the shots, a history that has repeated in the last five thousand years, from ancient Greece to modern day America.
Neil Faulkner is a historian and archaeologist and the author of numerous books, including, A People’s History of the Russian Revolution and most recently, A Radical History of the World.
About A Radical History of the World
From the ancient empires of Persia and Rome to the Russian Revolution, the Vietnam War, and the 2008 Crash, this is a history of greed and violence, but also of solidarity and resistance. Many times in the past, a different society became an absolute necessity. Humans have always struggled to create a better life. Neil Faulkner focus on the history that proves that we, the many, have the power to change the world.
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