Neil Faulkner Books

Focusing on significant archaeological discoveries, this visually rich hardback explores the history of civilization from iconic sites like Stonehenge to Tutankhamun's tomb. It covers both renowned and obscure excavations, revealing insights into the Eastern Roman Empire, Tudor London, and Mughal Delhi, while also examining the impacts of revolutions and wars. Enhanced by stunning full-color photography, the book includes an in-depth timeline and informative feature boxes, making it an engaging resource for history enthusiasts.

It is the greatest crisis in human history. We are hurtling towards an abyss. The system is terminally diseased. Pandemic, climate crisis, endless war, mega-slums, police repression, creeping fascism, economic stagnation: these shape our world. On one side, grotesque greed and rampaging corporate power. On the other, poverty, oppression, and despair. Capitalism came into the world, Marx wrote, 'dripping from head to toe, from every pore, with blood and dirt'. Now, the ageing system is putrescent and gangrenous. But the last decade has seen explosions of revolt from below, firecracking across the globe, toppling dictators, resisting austerity, protesting racism, defending abortion rights, fighting for democracy. Here is the embryo of an alternative future. Revolution - ending the rule of capital and the state - has become an existential necessity. This book is a call to arms.

A torrent of nationalism, racism, misogyny, and irrationalism is sweeping the world. The authoritarian right and new forms of fascism have become a clear and present danger. Neoliberal capitalism has torn society apart. Alienation has reached an unprecedented level. Extreme narcissistic individualism has become a pandemic. In this little book, Neil Faulkner draws on Marxist-Freudian theory to provide an updated analysis of the mass psychology of fascism, and to argue for a progressive counter-offensive based on love, labour, and reason.

A panoramic, provocative account of the clash between British imperialism and Arab jihadism in Africa between 1870 and 1920

With 180 outstanding colour photographs, Abandoned Places of World War I is a brilliant pictorial examination of the physical legacy of the 'Great War' as it was known.

The fast-accelerating world crisis is driving us towards barbarism and extinction. The capitalist system means ecological and social collapse. Mainstream politics, embedded in the system, has been reduced to irrelevance. Revolution has become an existential imperative. This book offers critical Marxist thinking about the nature of the crisis and what must be done to turn mass protest into the revolutionary transformation on which our survival depends.

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.

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.