David Priestland is the author of the widely praised and internationally acclaimed The Red Flag: Communism and the Making of the Modern World. He teaches history at Oxford University and is a fellow of St Edmund Hall.
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A bold new interpretation of modern history as a struggle between three economic groups We are now living in an age of merchants, but it was not always so. The history of civilization, in large part, is a story of a battle between agrarian aristocracy,... SEE MORE