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Lifelines

From Our

Past

Kevin Reilly, Series Editor

THE ALCHEMY OF HAPPINESS
Abu Hamid Muliammad al-Ghazzali Translated by Claud Field, revised and annotated by Elton L. Daniel

NATIVE AMERICANS BEFORE 1492
The Moundbuilding Centers of the Eastern Woodlands
Lynda Norene Shaffer

GERMS, SEEDS, AND ANIMALS
Studies in Ecological History
Alfred W. Crosby

BALKAN WORLDS
The First and Last Europe
Traian Stoianovich

AN ATLAS AND SURVEY OF SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
Karl J. Schmidt

THE GOGO
History, Customs, and Traditions
Mathias E. MnyampalaTranslated, introduced, and edited byGregory H. Maddox

WOMEN IN WORLD HISTORY:
Volume 1Readings from Prehistory to 1500Volume 2Readings from 1500 to the Present
Edited by Sarah Shaver Hughes and Brady Hughes

MARITIME SOUTHEAST ASIA TO 1500
Lynda Norene Shaffer

THE COURSE OF HUMAN HISTORY
Economic Growth, Social Process, and Civilization
Johan Goudsblom, Eric Jones, and Stephen Mennell

ON WORLD HISTORY
An Anthology
Johann Gottfried HerderTranslated by Ernest A. Menze withMichael Palma, edited by Hans Adler and ErnestA. Menze

TEACHING WORLD HISTORYA
A Resource Book
Edited by Heidi Roupp

DOUBLE GHOSTS
Oceanian Voyages on Euroamerican Ships
David A. Chappell

SHAPING WORLD HISTORY
Breakthroughs in Ecology, Technology, Science, and Politics
Mary Kilbourne Matossian

TRADITION AND DIVERSITY
Christianity in a World Context to 1500
Edited by Karen Louise Jolly

LIFELINES FROM OUR PAST
A New World History
Revised Edition
L.S. Stavrianos

THE FACE OF THE EARTH
Environment and World History
Edited by J. Donald Hughes

THE WORLD THAT TRADE CREATED
Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present
Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik

COLONIALISM AND THE MODERN WORLD
Selected Studies
Edited by Gregory Blue, Martin Bunton, and Ralph Croizier

THE POWER OF SCALE
A Global History Approach
John H. Bodley

RACISM
A Global Reader
Edited by Kevin Reilly, Stephen Kaufman, and Angela Bodino

THE WORLD AND A VERY SMALL PLACE IN AFRICA (2ND ED.)
A History of Globalization in Niumi, The Gambia
Donald R. Wright

L.S.

Stavrianos

Lifelines

From Our

Past

A New World History

Revised Edition

First published 2004 by M.E. Sharpe

Published 2015 by Routledge
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Stavrianos, Leften Stavros.
Lifelines from our past: a new world history / L. S. StavrianosRev. ed.
p. cm. (Sources and studies in world history)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7656-0180-X (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. World history. I. Title. II. Series.
D20.S83 1997
909dc21
97-12880
CIP

ISBN 13: 9780765601803 (pbk)

CONTENTS

by Kevin Reilly

To the memory of B.K.S.,
who is the coauthor in more ways
than she might have imagined.

When L. S. Stavrianos passed away this spring, we lost our countrys, and perhaps the worlds, earliest and most influential author and advocate of world history in our schools and colleges. Between 1960 and 2000, probably more students were introduced to world history through one of the texts or anthologies of Stavrianos than through those of anyone else. Many of us who teach world history today first learned from him the power of the big picture clearly presented. For decades, to teach world history was to teach the texts of Stavrianos or William H. McNeill.

It was fitting that two Canadian scholars in Balkan history initiated world history in America after World War II. Canada provided the necessary perspective. The Balkans offered a world in miniature, numerous languages to master, and the need to produce a narrative that transcended national needs. After publishing in Greek and Balkan history, both created models of world history and received foundation support to write the first school and college texts.

Both were materialists, Stavrianos out of Marx and a line of evolutionary anthropology that stretched back to Lewis Henry Morgan; McNeill a student of technology, demography, and ecology. Each concentrated on their own kind of social history. McNeill charted the impact of the tools of war, pathogens, and the interaction of steppe and sown; Stavrianos studied political power and social class. Perhaps they called on world history to do different things. Both wanted it to explain, but Stavrianos also wanted to change the world.

I have worlds to conquer, he would tell his children in the morning. Part Alexander and part country fisherman, he was a bear of a man, a cosmopolitan Zorba, eating yogurt after a swim in his La Jolla pool while scheming to save the world with his pen. Those who have had the privilege of knowing the man personally know that Leften Stavrianos wrote as he spoke: passionately and directly. Neither shy nor guarded, Leften seemed almost constitutionally incapable of mincing his words. But the format of textbook publishing often calls for balance in lieu of passion. In consequence, his works for a more general audience, books like

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