What Is History? of things in the world, in a 1970 article entitled "Marxism and History", Carr argued that with the exception of the Mexican Revolution, every revolution in the last sixty-odd years had been led by Marxists. The other revolutions Carr counted were the revolutions in Cuba, China, Russia, and a half-revolution in Vietnam (presumably a reference to the then on-going Vietnam War). This together with what Carr saw as the miserable condition of the Third World, which comprised most of the world led Carr to argue that Marxism had the greatest appeal in the Third World, and was the most likely
The World in 1492 the Colombian Quincentenary including "The World in 1492" and wrote "Perhaps the most serious fault that Bigelow ["New Advocate" reviewer] noted is the neglect within "all the new literature to link history to contemporary social problems" (p. 266). The books never address "the most important questions of a critical multicultural curriculum: So what? How does history help us understand and improve our world today?" (pp. 266–267)." "The World in 1492" has also been reviewed by "Kirkus Reviews", and "Publishers Weekly". It is a 1994 NCTE Kaleidoscope book The World in 1492 The World in 1492 is a 1992 children's history