World History category: 14642 books
by Rossiter Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
The Great Events of World History, Volume 9! Featuring: LUTHER BEGINS THE REFORMATION IN GERMANY, by Julius Koestlin & Jean Audin NEGRO SLAVERY IN AMERICA – ITS INTRODUCTION BY LAW, by Arthur Helps FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE GLOBE – MAGELLAN REACHES THE LADRONES AND PHILIPPINES, by Joan...
The Mongol Empire
Genghis Khan, his heirs and the founding of modern China
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals: a leader of genius, driven by an inspiring vision for peaceful world rule. Believing he was divinely protected, Genghis united warring clans to create a nation and then an empire that ran across much of Asia.
Under his grandson, Kublai Khan, the vision...
Money
The Unauthorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
From ancient currency to Adam Smith, from the gold standard to shadow banking and the Great Recession: a sweeping historical epic that traces the development and evolution of one of humankind’s greatest inventions.
What is money, and how does it work? In this tour de force of political, cultural...
Vermeer's Hat
The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
In this critical darling Vermeer's captivating and enigmatic paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought-from Delft to Beijing--were transformed in the 17th century, when the world first became global.
A Vermeer painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room,...
India After Gandhi Revised and Updated Edition
The History of the World's Largest Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
From one of the subcontinent’s most important and controversial writers comes this definitive history of post-Partition India, now revised and updated with extensive new material
Told in lucid and beautiful prose, the story of India’s wild ride toward and since Independence is a riveting...
by Frances Larson
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
A “wide-ranging and thoughtful” (Wall Street Journal) exploration of the varied obsessions that the “civilized West” has had with decapitated heads and skulls.
The human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses, encases the brain, and boasts the most expressive set...
The Age of Catastrophe
A History of the West 19141945
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Characterized by global war, political revolution and national crises, the period between 1914 and 1945 was one of the most horrifying eras in the history of the West. A noted scholar of modern German history, Heinrich August Winkler examines how and why Germany so radically broke with the normative...
The Ascent of Money
A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2008
The 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, Chimerica, and cryptocurrency
In this updated edition, Niall Ferguson brings his classic financial history of the world up to the present day, tackling the populist backlash that followed the 2008 crisis, the descent of "Chimerica"...
by Bill Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
One of the world’s most beloved writers and bestselling author of One Summer takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail**—well, most of it. In A Sunburned...
by Bill Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
One of the world’s most beloved writers and bestselling author of One Summer takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail**—well, most of it. In A Sunburned...
The World Until Yesterday
What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
**The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a better place for all of us?
“As he did in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel,...
Rome 1960
The Olympics That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
From the critically acclaimed and bestselling author David Maraniss, a groundbreaking book that weaves sports, politics, and history into a tour de force about the 1960 Rome Olympics, eighteen days of theater, suspense, victory, and defeat
David Maraniss draws compelling portraits of the athletes...
by Howard M. Sachar
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
When this encyclopedic history of the Jews was first published in 1958, it was hailed as one of the great works of its kind, a study that not only chronicled an assailed and enduring people, but assessed its astonishing impact on the modern world. Now this scholarly and comprehensive book has been...
The Jews
A History
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
The Jews: A History is a comprehensive and accessible text that explores the religious, cultural, social, and economic diversity of the Jewish people and their faith.
Placing Jewish history within its wider cultural context, the book covers a broad time span, stretching from ancient Israel to...