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Not sure if this is the definitive theory, but I read that women became the "subjugated sex" during the transition between nomadic society and agrarian society.
The reasoning goes that for the survival of a nomadic/hunter-gatherer society, women would usually forage while men would go out and hunt. As opposed to hunting which was quite physically intensive and required being out long stretches of time in the wilderness, foraging could be done whilst caring for the young - thus childbirth/taking care of the young by no means prohibited them from participating from gathering necessary resources for the survival of the village.
When farming came about the labor to produce crop, changed - requiring large amounts of intense physical labor and not at all conducive to child rearing. So women were often relegated to the home to care for their kids while the men went out and farmed. Thus, their role went from being crucial to the village economy to being shunned completely from it, once the transition to agriculture occurred. In that way men became the breadwinners - and as a result commanded a far more important role in the economies of agrarian societies.
Elaborating on that - as farming allowed nomadic tribes to settle into smaller towns and cities, laws and practices set up by the municipalities enshrined these biases through traditions, religions and other ethic codes.
I don't think this is a definitive answer and glazes over a lot of areas, but I think it's a good starting point. A good place to read up on this is the People's History of the World which has a whole chapter dedicated to the subject. -
http://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-World-Stone-Millennium/dp/1844672387/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345854393&sr=8-1&keywords=People%27s+history+of+the+world
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A People's History of the World
Main Currents of Marxism
The Socialist System
The Age of... (1, 2, 3, 4)
Marx for our Times
Essential Works of Socialism
Soviet Century
Self-Governing Socialism (Vols 1-2)
The Meaning of Marxism
The "S" Word (not that good in my opinion)
Of the People, by the People
Why Not Socialism
Socialism Betrayed
Democracy at Work
Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA (again didn't like it very much)
The Socialist Party of America (absolute must read)
The American Socialist Movement
Socialism: Past and Future (very good book)
It Didn't Happen Here
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The Enigma of Capital
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
A Companion to Marx's Capital (great book)
After Capitalism: Economic Democracy in Action
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The Conservative Nanny State
The United States Since 1980
The End of Loser Liberalism
Capitalism and it's Economics (must read)
Economics: A New Introduction (must read)
U.S. Capitalist Development Since 1776 (must read)
Kicking Away the Ladder
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
Traders, Guns and Money
Corporation Nation
Debunking Economics
How Rich Countries Got Rich
Super Imperialism
The Bubble and Beyond
Finance Capitalism and it's Discontents
Trade, Development and Foreign Debt
America's Protectionist Takeoff
How the Economy was Lost
Labor and Monopoly Capital
We Are Better Than This
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Spontaneous Order (disagree with it but found it interesting)
Man, State and Economy
The Machinery of Freedom
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>"I have had many people ask me if there is a book which does for world history what my book A People's History of the United States does for this country. I always respond that I know of only one book that accomplishes this extremely difficult task, and that is Chris Harman's A People's History of the World"
-- Howard Zinn
Another candidate would be Leo Huberman's Man's Worldly Goods: The Story of The Wealth of Nations.
To be honest after learning about Operation Gladio it's hard to believe anything.
I doubt they'd assault the Embassy tbh, that'd be insane - they'll just pressure Ecuador into handing him over, or let him go and just focus on destroying Wikileaks. Although tbh, most people don't know about the stuff on Wikileaks anyway - bread and circus is as successful as ever, still "The beating heart of Rome lies not in the marble of the Senate but the sand of the Coliseum".
It disgusts me that Julian Assange is holed up in an Embassy seeking refuge from the law enforcement forces of my own country, whilst men like Bob Diamond and Fred Goodwin walk free, rewarded even!
Have you read The People's History Of The World it's pretty good, I can pm you it in pdf.
Also the Julian Assange Show is pretty awesome. As is Culture in Decline and Zeitgeist: Moving Forward by Peter Joseph.
The old Zeitgeist films are pretty awful though - don't bother watching those.
It reminds me of the preface to V for Vendetta by Alan Moore, where he explains why he wrote the graphic novel, describing how bad the Thatcher administration had gotten, with some ministers openly suggesting they quarantine HIV sufferers in camps on remote islands and so on. And using belligerent foreign wars to drum up nationalist fervour and retain power as you described.
The drones are making extra-judicial killing a fact of life, and that's just the DoD ones that we know about - the CIA ones don't have to declare what they are doing. And I don't trust the CIA left with little oversight..
It seems more and more like the future is a mix of Huxley, Moore and Gibson's dystopias. But as we come down on the steeper, bad side of Hubbert's peak and face the spectre of Climate Change it hardly seems likely that things will improve :/
Currently reading A People's History of the World. Recommended if you have an interest in class struggle and patterns in history.
Chris Harman's "A People's History of the World" is a great book for those interested in materialist understanding of history. Not only does he put ordinary people, rather than kings and leaders, in the middle of history, but he also emphasizes the structural changes behind historic events.
https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-World-Stone-Millennium/dp/1844672387
people will have their problems with these but they are good additions or jumping off points for further research.
A People's History of the World
A People's History of the US - I don't remember if this book talks about Latin American relations specifically but it would be hard to tell this story without at least talking about it tangentially.
(i thought there was one for latin america but I'm not finding one in that series but if there is one, pick that up)
and of course pretty much anything by Chomsky, especially:
Manufacturing Consent
Caution: this is not only a long book but a DENSE one as well. Noam is not known as a storyteller. This book is no different. Every sentence is packed with gravity. It's looking specifically at the media's relationship with the US's relationship with Latin America but that's a good lens to go at that field of study.
In most of his work he focuses a lot on the Monroe Doctrine and its aftermath so you can pick up almost any of his work and you'll get some of it. Especially the earlier stuff.
A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium.
A People's History of the World analyzes world history through a Marxist lens.