A review by rachelwalexander
A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium by Chris Harman

3.0

For being a history of "the world," this was told almost entirely from a western perspective, with almost more pages devoted to the nuances of the French Revolution than to the entirety of China over 10,000+ years of human history. As with nearly everything focused on class analysis, I found discussions about the role of race frustratingly lacking or shallow. So with those caveats, this is a solid and comprehensive leftist history of Europe and to some degree the U.S.