{"subjects": ["World history", "Sociology"], "key": "/works/OL114465W", "title": "Lifelines from our past", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL4539681A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [4615851], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "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.\n\nThe revised edition projects forward to the twenty-first century, offering the author's views on possible future scenarios involving the same lifeline issues."}, "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-18T02:50:10.177820"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-03-20T12:01:34.733116"}}