Historical Analysis

[Niccolò Rossi]

From my perspective, the biggest contribution of Marx was the materialist conception of history. However, during the time in which Marx and Engels wrote what they did in regard to history and the materialist conception of history (albeit very little) the understanding of ancient society and early human history was largely unknown as compared to today.

Could anyone please recommend me some modern (or atleast post-Marx) analyses of history according to a historical materialist outlook regarding feudal and pre-fuedal ancient society.

[Q]

From my perspective, the biggest contribution of Marx was the materialist conception of history. However, during the time in which Marx and Engels wrote what they did in regard to history and the materialist conception of history (albeit very little) the understanding of ancient society and early human history was largely unknown as compared to today.

Could anyone please recommend me some modern (or atleast post-Marx) analyses of history according to a historical materialist outlook regarding feudal and pre-fuedal ancient society.
A good question. Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_materialism#Further_reading) suggests a few sources for further reading, I hope it helps.

[Invader Zim]

For feudal society, you want Rodney Hilton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Hilton). For classical history G. E. M. de Ste. Croix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._E._M._de_Ste._Croix).

[Niccolò Rossi]

Big thanks to Invader Zim for recommending G. E. M. De Ste. Croix. I bought a used copy of The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests from Amazon.

Also thanks to Q-collective for the simple and yet o' so easily overlooked suggestion of actually looking up wikipedia sources. Doing this led me to buy another used book from Amazon: Pre-capitalist Modes of Production by Barry Hindess. (Would have bought more - some I tracked down were as little as $3 used - but they don't ship to Australia :cursing:)