Lifelines from Our Past

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.