World History category: 14642 books
The Abyss
World War I and the End of the First Age of Globalization--A Selection from The War of the World (Penguin Tracks)
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Excerpted from Niall Ferguson’s sprawling bestseller The War of the World, The Abyss now stands on its own as one of the most thrilling short histories of World War I ever written. This is not a conventional military history about battles and generals. Rather, The Abyss examines how World War I...
by Stephen Gosch, Peter Stearns
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
This book features some of the greatest travellers in human history – people who undertook long journeys to places they knew little or nothing about. From Roman tourists, to the establishment of the Silk Road; an epic trek round China and India in the seventh century, to Marco Polo and through...
by Bathroom Readers' Hysterical Society, JoAnn Padgett
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Only the trivia gurus at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute could take a dry subject like history and make it so much fun! Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Plunges into History will open your eyes to ages past and entertain you for ages to come.
Whether you’re a history buff, or you just like...
by J.A. Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
An eye-opening account of the great black personalities of world history.
In this first volume: outstanding blacks of Asia and Africa, and historical figures before Christ -- including Akhenaton, Aesop, Hannibal, Cleopatra, Zenobia, Askia the Great, the Mahdi, Samuel Adjai Crowther, and many more.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
The Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History engages with some of the most recent trends in French revolutionary scholarship by considering the Revolution in its global context. Across seventeen chapters an international team of contributors examine the impact of the Revolution...
The Sacred History
How Angels, Mystics and Higher Intelligence Made Our World
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
This collection of stories and illustrations—all about the wonders of the spiritual realm—takes you on a captivating ride from the great myths of ancient civilization to astounding discoveries of the modern era.
Written by the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret History of the...
A Bitter Revolution : China's struggle with the modern world
China's Struggle with the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world....
by Laura Etheredge
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Given that Islam predominates in over thirty countries around the world, the history of the Islamic world requires a broad perspective. This in-depth look at the history of the religion and culture of Islam and the Muslim people covers the extreme breadth of the topic while still maintaining a detailed...
The Great Experiment
The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
This dramatic narrative of breathtaking scope and riveting focus puts the "story" back into history. It is the saga of how the most ambitious of big ideas -- that a world made up of many nations can govern itself peacefully -- has played out over the millennia. Humankind's "Great Experiment" goes...
World History
Journeys from Past to Present - VOLUME 2: From 1500 CE to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
World History: Journeys from Past to Present uses common themes to present an integrated and comprehensive survey of human history from its origins to the present day. By weaving together thematic and regional perspectives in coherent chronological narratives, Goucher and Walton transform the overwhelming...
Eastern Europe!
Everything You Need to Know About the History (and More) of a Region that Shaped Our World and Still Does
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
The critically acclaimed, first comprehensive, English-language informative AND highly entertaining overview of a region of vital importance to the European--and global--economy and that represents the ancestry of tens of millions of North Americans and others throughout the world
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Crude Reality
Petroleum in World History
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
This concise, accessible introduction to the history of oil tells the story of how petroleum shaped human life since it was first discovered leaking inconspicuously from the soil. Leading environmental history specialist Brian C. Black connects the subsequent exploitation of petroleum to patterns...
World History and the Eonic Effect
Civilization, Darwinism, and Theories of Evolution Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
At a time when theories of evolution are undergoing renewed controversy, the study of the Eonic Effect can break the deadlock, by looking at world history in the light of evolution. The assumption that evolution occurs at random is the crux of the dispute, and one confused with issues of religion...
A World History of Rubber
Empire, Industry, and the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
A World History of Rubber helps readers understand and gain new insights into the social and cultural contexts of global production and consumption, from the nineteenth century to today, through the fascinating story of one commodity.
Divides the coverage into themes of race, migration, and labor;...