World History category: 14642 books
The Rise of the West
A History of the Human Community
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human...
by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
This book tells the story of humankind as producers and reproducers from the Paleolithic to the present. Renowned social and cultural historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks brings a new perspective to world history by examining social and cultural developments across the globe, including families and kin groups,...
World History
Journeys from Past to Present - VOLUME 1: From Human Origins to 1500 CE
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...
Global Connections: Volume 1, To 1500
Politics, Exchange, and Social Life in World History
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
The first textbook to present world history via social history, drawing on social science methods and research. This interdisciplinary, comprehensive and comparative textbook is authored by distinguished scholars and experienced teachers, and offers expert scholarship on global history that is ideal...
The Mexican Heartland
How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500-2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
A major new history of capitalism from the perspective of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, who sustained and resisted it for centuries
The Mexican Heartland provides a new history of capitalism from the perspective of the landed communities surrounding Mexico City. In a sweeping analytical...
by Peter N. Stearns
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
In this revised edition of Globalization in World History, Peter Stearns explores the roots of contemporary globalization, examining shifts in the global flow of people, goods and ideas as early as 1000 CE. Exploring how four moments in history have accelerated the process of globalization, Stearns’s...
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Fight for Fundamental Freedoms
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In the wake of the Second World War and its atrocities,...
by Nam Nguyen
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
History of Each Country Around The World’s goal is to fill your mind with simple historical knowledge with this ebook. The ebook is easy to use,refreshing and is guaranteed to be exciting!You can read this ebook without any prior knowledge of past events. This ebook is an excellent resource...
The Little Book of Big History
The Story of Life, the Universe and Everything
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
From the Big Bang to the future of our planet, The Little Book of Big History divides history into manageable but comprehensive time frames, encompassing the cosmos, the stars, life and everything in between. Big History is the attempt to understand and condense the entire story of the cosmos, from the...
by Ian Crofton, Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
A lively history of the universe and human civilization, this authoritative volume tells the story of the cosmos, the stars, and human development on earth.
The Little Book of Big History is an endeavor to encapsulate the entire story of the cosmos, from the Big Bang to the current day, into...
The British Empire
A History and a Debate
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
What was the course and consequence of the British Empire? The rights and wrongs, strengths and weaknesses of empire are a major topic in global history, and deservedly so. Focusing on the most prominent and wide-ranging empire in world history, the British empire, Jeremy Black provides not only a...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Since 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-based modes of transport and communication. Volume 7 of the Cambridge World History series, divided into two books, offers a variety of angles of vision on the increasingly...
A Big History of Globalization
The Emergence of a Global World System
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
This book presents the history of globalization as a network-based story in the context of Big History. Departing from the traditional historic discourse, in which communities, cities, and states serve as the main units of analysis, the authors instead trace the historical emergence, growth, interconnection,...
by Peter N Stearns, Peter N. Stearns
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
Filling a gap in a field with very few teaching books available, Childhood in World History provides a much-needed historical overview. Studying childhood historically greatly advances our understanding of what childhood is about, and a world history focus permits broad questions to be asked.
Peter...