World History category: 14642 books
AD 33
The Year That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
AD 33 was the year when an obscure religious teacher died a criminal's death in an outpost of the Roman Empire, an event which had world-changing consequences in the form of the beginnings of Christianity. What was the world like in that momentous year? In this breathtaking book, events in the Roman...
by Rossiter Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
The Great Events of World History, Volume 10! Featuring: ENGLAND LOSES HER LAST FRENCH TERRITORY – BATTLE OF ST. QUENTIN, by Charles Knight REIGN OF ELIZABETH, by Henry Cleveland JOHN KNOX HEADS THE SCOTTISH REFORMERS, by P. Brown & Thomas Carlyle MARY STUART: HER REIGN AND EXECUTION, by Algernon...
Target Switzerland
Swiss Armed Neutrality In World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
"In the future it will be impossible to authoritatively discuss Switzerland during the dark years without having read Halbrook."--Dr. Jurg Stussi-Lauterburg, author of Federalism and Freedom
In 1943, Adolf Hitler proclaimed that "all the rubbish of small nations still existing...
The 10 Football Matches That Changed the World
And The One That Didn't
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The assertion that 'football isn't a matter of life or death, it's much more important than that' has been verified repeatedly throughout modern history. It has bolstered tyrants and helped depose them; contributed to conflict and created ceasefires. It has been an incubator of racism at home and...
1913
In Search of the World Before the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features-last...
Grave New World
The End of Globalization, the Return of History
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
A controversial look at the end of globalization and what it means for prosperity, peace, and the global economic order Globalization, long considered the best route to economic prosperity, is not inevitable. An approach built on the principles of free trade and, since the 1980s, open capital markets,...
by Bruce Mazlish
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
From a distinguished author in the field, The New Global History is a critical inquiry into the historical process of globalization, which is seen as a distinctly twentieth century phenomenon with its roots in the age of expansion of the early modern world.
Cutting across disciplinary boundaries,...
The Modern World-System II
Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600–1750
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
The Modern World-System I
Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
The Modern World-System III
The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730s–1840s
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?
The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Veteran journalist Andrew Lawler delivers a “fascinating and delightful…globetrotting tour” (Wall Street Journal) with the animal that has been most crucial to the spread of civilization—the chicken.
In a masterful combination of historical sleuthing and journalistic adventure, veteran...
The World in the Long Twentieth Century
An Interpretive History
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
What can be called the long twentieth century represents the most miraculous and creative era in human history. It was also the most destructive. Over the past 150 years, modern societies across the globe have passed through an extraordinary and completely unprecedented transformation rooted in the...
Wonderland
How Play Made the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
**“A house of wonders itself. . . . *Wonderland *inspires grins and well-what-d'ya-knows” —The New York Times Book Review
From the *New York Times–*bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Farsighted, a look at the world-changing innovations we made while keeping ourselves...
by Lenny Flank
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
The unknown story behind historical places and exhibits from some of the most famous museums in the world, including the Smithsonian, the Field Museum, and others. Includes: Chicago 1968, The Whole World Was Watching; The Life and Death of Skylab; Airphibian, The Car That Flies; Gettysburg, The Strange Story of Private Wesley Culp; When Whales Walked; America's Oldest City; and more.