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Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- MAPS AND PLATES -- Maps -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I Black Ivory, White Nile -- chapter one HEART OF DARKNESS -- chapter two THE MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON -- chapter three A RUCKLE OF BONES -- Part II Star and Crescent -- chapter four BAKER PASHA -- chapter five GORDON PASHA -- chapter six EGYPT FOR THE EGYPTIANS? -- chapter seven ALL SIR GARNET -- Part III The Black Flag -- chapter eight A MUSLIM PROPHET -- chapter nine A CHRISTIAN MYSTIC -- chapter ten A MODERN CRUSADER -- Part IV The Spectre of Jihad -- chapter eleven AN ISLAMIC CALIPHATE -- chapter twelve OMDURMAN -- chapter thirteen A 'MAD MULLAH' -- chapter fourteen THE KAISER'S WAR -- CONCLUSION -- TIMELINE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

The Ottoman Sultan called for a "Great Jihad" against the Entente powers at the start of the First World War. He was building on half a century of conflict between British colonialism and the people of the Middle East and North Africa. Resistance to Western violence increasingly took the form of radical Islamic insurgency.0 0Ranging from the forests of Central Africa to the deserts of Egypt, Sudan, and Somaliland, Neil Faulkner explores a fatal collision between two forms of oppression, one rooted in the ancient slave trade, the other in modern "coolie" capitalism. He reveals the complex interactions between anti-slavery humanitarianism, British hostility to embryonic Arab nationalism, "war on terror" moral panics, and Islamist revolt. Far from being an enduring remnant of the medieval past, or an essential expression of Muslim identity, Faulkner argues that "Holy War" was a reactionary response to the violence of modern imperialism.

Hunters and farmers, c. 2.5 million-3000 BC -- The first class societies, c. 3000-1000 BC -- Ancient empires, c. 1000-30 BC -- The end of antiquity, c 30 BC-AD 650 -- The medieval world, c. AD 650-1500 -- European feudalism, c. AD 650-1500 -- The first wave of bourgeois revolutions, 1517-1660 -- Absolutist Europe and capitalist globalisation 1660-1775 -- The second wave of bourgeois revolutions, 1775-1815 -- The rise of industrial capitalism, c. 1750-1850 -- The age of blood and iron, 1848-1873 -- Imperialism and war, 1873-1918 -- The revolutionary wave, 1917-1928 -- The Great Depression and the rise of fascism, 1929-1939 -- World War and Cold War, 1939-1967 -- The world on fire 1968-1975 -- The new world disorder, 1975-2008 -- Capitalism's greatest crisis? the early twenty-first century -- Conslusion: Making the future -- Timeline -- Sources -- Bibliographical notes -- Select bibliography -- Index

The Russian Revolution may well be the most misunderstood event in modern history. In A People's History of the Russian Revolution, Neil Faulkner sets out to debunk the myths. In this fast-paced introduction to the tumultuous events, the Russian people are the heroes. Faulkner shows how a mass movement of millions, organised in democratic assemblies, mobilised for militant action, destroyed a regime of landlords, profiteers and warmongers. He rejects caricatures of Lenin and the Bolsheviks as authoritarian conspirators, 'democratic-centralists' or the progenitors of Stalinist dictatorship. He argues that the Russian Revolution was an explosion of democracy and creativity - and that it was crushed by bloody counter-revolution and replaced with a monstrous form of bureaucratic state-capitalism. Laced with first-hand testimony, this history seeks to rescue the democratic essence of the revolution from its detractors and deniers, offering a perfect primer for the modern reader

Introduction -- Holy war? -- Young Turks -- Little Mehmet -- For sultan and caliph -- Sinai bridgehead -- The Battle of Romani -- The Arab revolt -- A crusader, an unknown desert, and a new way of war -- The gates of Palestine -- Aqaba -- Bull loose -- The railway war -- The Third Battle of Gaza -- Jerusalem -- The mountains of Moab -- Special operations -- Armageddon -- Epilogue

The Russian Revolution was an explosion of mass democracy from below. It transformed the people who took part and inspired tens of millions across the world. Its global impact shook the capitalist system to its foundations and came close to bringing it down. But in the end, the revolutionary movement was destroyed by the most murderous counter-revolutionary terror in history. And because the real history of the revolution is so subversive of class rule everywhere— East, West, and South— it has been buried under a mountain of lies, distortions, and denials. This book sets out to nail every bogus argument about the Russian Revolution— from Tories, Stalinists, and sectarians— and to present the living reality of a mass movement of millions, organised in participatory assemblies, mobilised for militant action.