Lifelines from our past
a new world history
by Leften Stavros Stavrianos
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The author examines four "lifelines"--how we have dealt with our environment, relations between the sexes, the organization of society, and war--through the history of the three great societal forms (kinship, tributary and capitalist) which have dominated our existence through the millennia and explores the ways in which each of these societal systems met or failed to meet the basic human needs of its time.
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Lifelines from our past: a new world history
1997, M.E. Sharpe
in English
- Rev. ed.
076560180X 9780765601803
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Lifelines from Our Past: A New World History
January 27, 1990, Pantheon Books
in English
0394560949 9780394560946
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Lifelines from our past: a new world history
1989, Pantheon Books
in English
- 1st ed.
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Bibliography: p. 251-259.
Includes index.
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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.
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