"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 responded 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. It is an indispensable volume on my reference bookshelf."
–Howard Zinn "The left ... has few accounts which convey as well as this book does the broad sweep of human history."
–Robin Blackburn, author of The Making of New World Slavery and The American Crucible