People's history
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A people's history or history from below is a type of historical narrative which attempts to account for historical events from the perspective of common people rather than political and other leaders.
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[edit] 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 direct opposition to methods which tend to emphasize single great figures in history, referred to as the Great man theory.
[edit] See also
[edit] General
- Labor movement
- striker
- Eugene V. Debs
- Socialist Party of America
- Antiwar movements
- Georges Lefebvre
- George Rudé
- Howard Zinn
- Communist Party Historians Group
[edit] Other
- Marxist historiography
- Alltagsgeschichte
- Subaltern studies
- New labor history
- Leftist
- Multicultural
- Anti-imperialist
- Pentagon papers
- Espionage Act
- Ruth Greenglass
- David Greenglass
- Ron Kovic
[edit] Further reading
- A People's History of Florida 1513-1876: How Africans, Seminoles, Women, and Lower Class Whites Shaped the Sunshine State by Adam Wasserman
- 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 United States (in 8 volumes) by Page Smith
- 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
- The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome by Michael Parenti
- A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence by Ray Raphael
- 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
[edit] External articles
- Letter Repository - The history of people, one person at a time.
- libcom.org/history - Formerly peopleshistory.co.uk, a people's history website
- People's History of the World - Full version of Chris Harman's book online
- The Human Known Project - a historical record of individual experiences and perspectives
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