Lifelines from our past
Subtitle: a new world history
By: L.S. Stavrianos.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: World history
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 251-259.
Includes index.