World History category: 14642 books
Rice
Global Networks and New Histories
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Rice today is food to half the world's population. Its history is inextricably entangled with the emergence of colonialism, the global networks of industrial capitalism, and the modern world economy. The history of rice is currently a vital and innovative field of research attracting serious attention,...
Too Hot to Handle
A Global History of Sex Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
Too Hot to Handle is the first truly international history of sex education. As Jonathan Zimmerman shows, the controversial subject began in the West and spread steadily around the world over the past century. As people crossed borders, however, they joined hands to block sex education from most of...
by Michael D. Richards
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This broad comparative survey focuses on five big case studies, starting with the English Revolution in the seventeenth century, and going on to the Mexican, Russian, Vietnamese and Iranian Revolutions.
Revolutions in World History traces the origins, developments, and outcomes of these revolutions,...
by Susan R. Grayzel
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
The First World War was the first modern, total war, one requiring the mobilisation of both civilians and combatants. Particularly in Europe, the main theatre of the conflict, this war demanded the active participation of both men and women.
Women and the First World War provides an introduction...
Empire of Humanity
A History of Humanitarianism
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Empire of Humanity explores humanitarianism’s remarkable growth from its humble origins in the early nineteenth century to its current prominence in global life. In contrast to most contemporary accounts of humanitarianism that concentrate on the last two decades, Michael Barnett ties the past to...
by J. Robin E. Harger
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
No evidence exists to support the idea that a comparatively primitive people gradually evolved a civilization capable of building “The Great Pyramid of Ghiza” in Egypt. Carbon dating of incidental fragments of vegetation and charcoal is meaningless in terms of the repairs and minor adjustments...
by Felix Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2019
The Clever Teens' Guide to the Cold War: The perfect guide for background reading or revision.
From the end of World War Two to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 the world lived within the shadow of the Cold War. For almost half a century the East and the West eyed each other with suspicion...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
For Centuries Mysteries Have Intrigued The Human Mind And Remain A Secret. Need Help But Can't Find Any Solution or Even Sign of It? Don't fret, Let The Wonders of This World Be Open To You!
There are many lists that claim to have contained the Seven Wonders of the World. These lists have travelled...
by T. Vadney
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1998
THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF GLOBAL CHANGE FROM 1945 TO THE PRESENT DAY The world since 1945 has witnessed fundamental changes, notably the increasing influence of the West - particularly the USA - in a variety of spheres, the emergence and collapse of the USSR, the end of colonial empire in Asia and Africa...
by John E. Wills Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
In The World from 1450 to 1700, historian John Wills takes a fresh look at one of the most fascinating and tumultuous periods in world history. Assuming a global perspective, rather than the traditional Eurocentric view, Wills traces the interwoven changes that led from the world of Columbus, Luther,...
Crusade and Jihad
The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Crusade and Jihad is the first book to encompass, in one volume, the entire history of the catastrophic encounter between the Global North—China, Russia, Europe, Britain, and America—and Muslim societies from Central Asia to West Africa. William R. Polk draws on more than half a century of experience...
The Modern World
Civilizations of Africa, Civilizations of Europe, Civilizations of the Americas, Civilizations of the Middle East and Southwest Asia, Civilizations of Asia and the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Designed to meet the curriculum needs for students from grades 7 to 12, this five-volume encyclopedia explores world history from approximately 5000 C.E. to the present. Organized alphabetically within geographical volumes on Africa, Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Southwest Asia, and Asia...
Corn and Capitalism
How a Botanical Bastard Grew to Global Dominance
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
Exploring the history and importance of corn worldwide, Arturo Warman traces its development from a New World food of poor and despised peoples into a commodity that plays a major role in the modern global economy.
The book, first published in Mexico in 1988, combines approaches from anthropology,...
America and the World
Culture, Commerce, Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Although the twenty-first century may well be the age of globalization, this book demonstrates that America has actually been at the cutting edge of globalization since Columbus landed here five centuries ago.
Lawrence A. Peskin and Edmund F. Wehrle explore America's evolving connections with...