People's history

A people's history is a type of historical work which attempts to account for historical events from the perspective of common people.

Description

A people's history is the history of the world that is the story of mass movements and of the outsiders. Individuals not included in the past in other type of writing about history are part of this theory's primary focus, which includes the disenfranchised, the oppressed, the poor, the nonconformists, and the otherwise forgotten people. This theory also usually focuses on events occurring in the fullness of time, or when an overwhelming wave of smaller events cause certain developments to occur.

This revisionist approach to writing history is in opposition to methods which tend to emphasize single great figures in history, referred to as the Great man theory.

ee also

General

*Labor movement
*striker
*Eugene V. Debs
*Socialist Party of America
*Antiwar movements
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Things

*Bill of Rights
*Universal suffrage
*affirmative action
*Collective bargaining
*Patriotism
*Democracy
*National interest

Other

*Leftist
*Multicultural
*Anti-imperialist
*Pentagon papers
*Espionage Act
*Ruth Greenglass
*David Greenglass
*Ron Kovic

Further reading

* "A People's History of England" by A. L. Morton
* "A People’s History of Poverty in America" by Stephen Pimpare
* "A People’s History of Sports in the United States" by Dave Zirin
* "A People's History of the Mexican Revolution" by Adolfo Gilly
* "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn
* "A People's History of the World" by Chris Harman
* "The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire" by John Newsinger
* "A People's History of the Supreme Court" by Peter Irons
* "" by Michael Parenti
* "A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence" by Ray Raphael
* "America Enters the World: A People's History of the Progressive Era and World War I" by Page Smith
*"A People's History of the Vietnam War" by Jonathan Neale (US Title)
*"A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom" by David Williams
*"A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and "Low Mechaniks" by Clifford D. Conner
*"The Congo: From Leopold to Kabila: A People's History" by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
*"Reformation Christianity: A People's History of Christianity" by Peter Matheson and Denis R. Janz
*"Christian Origins: A People's History of Christianity, Vol. 1" by Richard A. Horsley
*"Ancient Christianity: A People's History of Christianity, Vol. 2" by Virginia Burrus
*"The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World" by Vijay Prashad
*"The English Civil War: A People's History" by Diane Purkiss

External articles

* [http://libcom.org/history libcom.org/history] - Formerly peopleshistory.co.uk, a people's history website
* [http://www.istendency.net/node/view/7 People's History of the World] - Full version of Chris Harman's book online