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Neil Faulkner

    January 22, 1958 – February 1, 2022

    Neil Faulkner is a British archaeologist, historian, and writer whose works delve deeply into the past with unflinching analysis. His writing stands out for its sharp focus on the social and political forces that shaped history, offering readers a fresh perspective on long-past events. He brings complex historical narratives to life in an accessible and engaging manner, providing incisive insights into the nature of human society.

    Neil Faulkner
    Radikálne dejiny sveta
    Lawrence of Arabia's War
    The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain
    • The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain

      • 176 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      Why did Rome abandon Britain in the early 5th century? According to Neil Faulkner, the centralized, military-bureaucratic state, governed by a class of super-rich landlords and apparatchiks, had siphoned wealth out of the province, with the result that the towns declined and the countryside was depressed. When the army withdrew to defend the imperial heartlands, the remaining Romano-British elite succumbed to a combination of warlord power, barbarian attack, and popular revolt.

      The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain
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    • Lawrence of Arabia's War

      • 528 pages
      • 19 hours of reading

      A wealth of new research and thinking on Lawrence, the Arab Revolt, and World War One in the Middle East, providing essential background to today's violent conflicts Rarely is a book published that revises our understanding of an entire world region and the history that has defined it. This groundbreaking volume makes just such a contribution. Neil Faulkner draws on ten years of field research to offer the first truly multidisciplinary history of the conflicts that raged in Sinai, Arabia, Palestine, and Syria during the First World War. In Lawrence of Arabia's War, the author rewrites the history of T. E. Lawrence's legendary military campaigns in the context of the Arab Revolt. He explores the intersections among the declining Ottoman Empire, the Bedouin tribes, nascent Arab nationalism, and Western imperial ambition. The book provides a new analysis of Ottoman resilience in the face of modern industrialized warfare, and it assesses the relative weight of conventional operations in Palestine and irregular warfare in Syria. Faulkner thus reassesses the historic roots of today's divided, fractious, war-torn Middle East.

      Lawrence of Arabia's War
    • Radikálne dejiny sveta

      • 488 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      História je zbraň. Mocní majú svoju verziu udalostí, obyčajní ľudia majú inú. A ak pochopíme, ako sa minulosť ukula, je to výzva, aby sme zmenili budúcnosť. Kniha je históriou boja, revolúcie a spoločenských zmien: hominínov, poľovníkov a pastierov; cisárov a otrokov; patriarchov a žien; bohatých a chudobných; diktátorov a revolucionárov.Je to rozsiahla história od lovcov a zberačov pred dvoma miliónmi rokov po staroveké ríše Perzie a Číny, od ruskej revolúcie po moderný imperializmus a krízu v roku 2008. História chamtivosti a násilia, ale aj solidarity a odporu.V minulosti sa zmena spoločnosti mnohokrát stala absolútnou nevyhnutnosťou. Ľudia sa vždy snažili vytvoriť lepší život. Faulkner tvrdí, že práve masová akcia obyčajných ľudí vedie k veľkým udalostiam. Táto história dokazuje, že my mnohí máme moc zmeniť svet.Pripojte sa k marxistickému historikovi Neilovi Faulknerovi v rozhovore o jeho knihe Radikálne dejiny sveta. Toto je rozsiahla história od lovcov a zberačov pred dvoma miliónmi rokov po staroveké ríše Perzie a Číny, od ruskej revolúcie po moderný imperializmus a krach v roku 2008. To, čo sa stalo v minulosti, nebolo vopred určené. Často boli možné rôzne výsledky – oslobodenie alebo barbarstvo. Faulkner, ktorý odmieta prístup konvenčných dejín zhora nadol, tvrdí, že práve masová akcia obyčajných ľudí vedie k veľkým udalostiam.

      Radikálne dejiny sveta