World History category: 14642 books
Vanishing Coup
The Pattern of World History since 1310
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
How did the Republic of Venice go 486 years without a single coup d’état or coup attempt? Is it the same force that has generated stability in Britain since 1746, in the United States since 1776, and in a growing number of nations around the world?
This thoughtful and engaging book offers...
The Search for Negotiated Peace
Women's Activism and Citizen Diplomacy in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
The First World War was an epic event of huge proportions that lasted over four years and involved the armies of more than twenty nations, resulting in 30 million casualties, including more than 8 million killed. Set against the backdrop of this massive carnage, The Search for Negotiated Peace is...
Holocaust Survivor Accounts: Incredible True Holocaust Survivor Stories From World War 2: Accounts Of Holocaust History
Holocaust Survivor Accounts, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
If there is one thing that can be said about humanity, it is that we are true survivors. From wars to natural disasters, man has managed to bring himself back from the brink of destruction.
We have thrived over the millennia we have inhabited this earth; from the caveman to the modern civilization...
by Nelly Hanna
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Aiming to place Egypt clearly in the context of some of the major worldwide transformations of the three centuries from 1500 to 1800, Nelly Hanna questions the mainstream view that has identified the main sources of modern world history as the Reformation, the expansion of Europe into America and...
GED Test Prep Social Studies 2: World History Review--Exambusters Flash Cards--Workbook 13 of 13
GED Exam Study Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
"GED Prep Flashcard Workbook 13: WORLD HISTORY" 600 questions (ILLUSTRATED). Topics: Beginning of Civilization, Middle Ages, Nationalism, Imperialism, The Cold War, and more. [==================] ADDITIONAL WORKBOOKS: "GED Prep Flashcard Workbook 3: CHEMISTRY" 700 questions. Essential chemistry formulas...
Europe and the Maritime World
A Twentieth Century History
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History offers a framework for understanding globalization over the past century. Through a detailed analysis of ports, shipping and trading companies whose networks spanned the world, Michael B. Miller shows how a European maritime infrastructure...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Until recently, the age of exploration and empire building was researched and taught within imperial and national boundaries. The histories of Europe, Africa, North America, and South America were told largely as independent stories, with the development of individual places within each continent...
Politics and Culture in International History
From the Ancient Near East to the Opening of the Modern Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The current political conflicts in Somalia and Russia make the reappearance of this book as relevant as ever. Politics and Culture in International History illumines world politics by identifying the causes of conflict and war and assessing the validity of schemes for peace and unity. Bozeman maintains...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
From the fourth millennium BCE to the early second millennium CE the world became a world of cities. This volume explores this critical transformation, from the appearance of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the rise of cities in Asia and the Mediterranean world, Africa, and the Americas....
France in the World
A New Global History
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
This dynamic collection presents a new way of writing national and global histories while developing our understanding of France in the world through short, provocative essays that range from prehistoric frescoes to Coco Chanel to the terrorist attacks of 2015.
Bringing together an impressive...
by Allen Abramowitz
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
From the beginning, the story of humans was shaped by geography, chemistry, and evolution. Our ideas and ambition would pollinate trade and science and collide in politics and war. This book shows how nations and cultures were connected through events that occurred all across the globe. This is our history - in a nutshell.
Unearthly Powers
Religious and Political Change in World History
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Why was religion so important for rulers in the pre-modern world? And how did the world come to be dominated by just a handful of religious traditions, especially Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism? Drawing on sociology and anthropology, as well as a huge range of historical literature from all regions...
Meta-Religion
Religion and Power in World History
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2015
Whereas many textbooks treat the subject of world religions in an apolitical way, as if each religion were a path for individuals seeking wisdom and not a discourse intimately connected with the exercise of power, James W. Laine treats religion and politics as halves of the same whole, tracing their...
Knowledge and Power
Science in World History
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Knowledge and Power presents and explores science not as something specifically for scientists, but as an integral part of human civilization, and traces the development of science through different historical settings from the Middle Ages through to the Cold War.
Five case studies are examined...