World History category: 14642 books
by Olivier Bernier
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
"Olivier Bernier's richly detailed, engaging, and elegant books offers a splendid refresher course on a pivotal moment in world history - the dawn of the modern era." - Francine du Plessix Gray. In the year 1800, almost everyone lived very much as their ancestors had, going back countless...
by Joshua B. Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
“Freeman’s rich and ambitious Behemoth depicts a world in retreat that still looms large in the national imagination.… More than an economic history, or a chronicle of architectural feats and labor movements.”—Jennifer Szalai, New York Times
In an accessible and timely work of scholarship,...
Empire of Things
How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
What we consume has become a central—perhaps the central—feature of modern life. Our economies live or die by spending, we increasingly define ourselves by our possessions, and this ever-richer lifestyle has had an extraordinary impact on our planet. How have we come to live with so much stuff,...
Fallen Glory
The Lives and Deaths of History's Greatest Buildings
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
An inviting, fascinating compendium of twenty-one of history's most famous lost places, from the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers
Buildings are more like us than we realize. They can be born into wealth or poverty, enjoying every privilege or struggling to make ends meet. They have parents—gods,...
Living with the Gods
On Beliefs and Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
In the same format as his best-selling books A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany: Memories of a Nation—the acclaimed art historian now gives us a magnificent new book that explores the relationship between faith and society.
Until fairly recently, religion as a major influence...
1968
The Year That Rocked the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2003
In this monumental new book, award-winning author Mark Kurlansky has written his most ambitious work to date: a singular and ultimately definitive look at a pivotal moment in history.
With 1968, Mark Kurlansky brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of that world-changing...
by Carol A. Wirth
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
A Book for the Curious,
Amateur and Serious Genealogists
Do you Want To Know More
About the Past?
Volume two of this six volume series THE WORLD OF YOUR ANCESTORS - DATES - 1800 - 1899 is a time of more changes. Where were your ancestors in the 1800’s? Did they fight...
The Sleepwalkers
How Europe Went to War in 1914
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History)
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I.
Drawing on...
Summary: The Ascent of Money - Niall Ferguson
A Financial History of the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Complete summary of Niall Ferguson’s book: “The Ascent of Money: AFinancial History of the World”.This summary of the ideas fromNiall Ferguson’s book “The Ascent of Money” shows how money is now moreimportant than ever. In his book, the author provides a historical look at theworld’s...
A Flag Worth Dying For
The Power and Politics of National Symbols
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Combining keen analysis of current events with world history, Tim Marshall, author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, provides “an entertaining whistle-stop tour of world flags” (Library Journal)—how their power is used to unite and divide populations and intimidate enemies.
For...
The New York World's Fair, 1939/1940
in 155 Photographs by Richard Wurts and Others
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
The New York World's Fair 1939/1940 may not have been the greatest of all world's fairs, but it is probably the most fondly remembered of all of them, a spectacle that no one who was there has forgotten. The 700-foot-tall Trylon and the 200-foot-wide Perisphere are still vivid symbols and memories...
The Longest Year
America at War and at Home in 1944
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
This “highly recommended” account of 1944—arguably the most important year in modern history—reads like a suspenseful drama (The History Channel).
Historian Victor Brooks argues that 1944 was “the longest year” for Americans of that era, both in terms of US casualties and in deciding...
by Rossiter Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Volume 7 of the Great Events of World History, featuring: DANTE COMPOSES THE "DIVINA COMMEDIA", by Richard Church THIRD ESTATE JOINS IN THE GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE, by Henri Martin WAR OF THE FLEMINGS WITH PHILIP THE FAIR OF FRANCE, by Eyre Crowe FIRST SWISS STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY, by F. Baker...
by Jason Burke
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
DAILY TELEGRAPH, ECONOMIST AND INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Throughout the 1990s a vast conflict was brewing. The storm broke on September 11th 2001. Since then much of the world has seen invasions, bombings, battles and riots. Hundreds of thousands of people have died. Jason Burke, a first-hand...