People's history

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A people's history is a type of historical work which attempts to account for historical events from the perspective of common people.

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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 opposition to methods which tend to emphasize single great figures in history, referred to as the Great man theory.

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  • A People's History of England by A. L. Morton
  • A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
  • 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
  • America Enters the World: A People's History of the Progressive Era and World War I by Page Smith
  • 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

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