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ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 35, No. 379, 1980: 481-482.

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ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 35, No. 379, 1980: 483-484.

Front Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One Early American Certainties -- Chapter Two Ready for the Complexities -- Chapter Three Poe: Politics and Nature's Perversities -- Chapter Four Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Politics of Compassion -- Chapter Five Herman Melville: The Politics of Pride -- Chapter Six Walt Whitman: His Braveries -- Chapter Seven Politics' Vicissitudes -- Chapter Eight Reductions and Disillusions: Some Hard Times for the Left -- Chapter Nine The Exuberant Radicalism of the 1960s -- Chapter Ten Technology and Democracy -- Afterword.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. In Uncertain Terms -- 2. When Sands Shift -- 3. When Ground Shakes -- 4. When Fish Invade -- 5. On the Dry Side of the Glass -- 6 Ashes to Ashes -- 7. We Are Not Waterproof -- 8. Reply Hazy. Try Again -- 9. Space-AgeImprobable Possibilities -- Epilogue: Reaction Time -- Postscript: Shrinking the Carbon Footprint of This Book -- In Case of Emergency -- Further Reading -- Index.

This book offers an extraordinary interpretation of world history, from the paleolithic era to the present. Renowned historian L.S. Stavrianos conceptualizes human history into three categories: kinship societies, tributary societies, and capitalist societies. In each, he discerns and studies four ""life-line"" issues - ecology, gender relations, social relations, and war - that encompass the broadest areas of human experience. The revised edition projects forward to the twenty-first century, offering the author's views on possible future scenarios involving the same lifeline issues