World History category: 14642 books
The Sea
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
“There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea,” wrote Joseph Conrad. And there is certainly nothing more integral to the development of the modern world. In The Sea: A Cultural History, John Mack considers those great expanses that both unite and divide us,...
by Alfred W. Crosby Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2003
Thirty years ago, Alfred Crosby published a small work that illuminated a simple point, that the most important changes brought on by the voyages of Columbus were not social or political, but biological in nature. The book told the story of how 1492 sparked the movement of organisms, both large and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history, the Fin de Siècle. Featuring contributions from over forty international scholars, this book takes a thematic approach to a period of huge upheaval...
Ohio Town
A Portrait of Xenia
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
“I wanted to tell the truth about the small town.”
Xenia, Ohio: The young among us sometimes rebel in their inexperience, saying “nothing ever happens here.” They say it because they do not know the old houses. If they live long enough they will learn that everything has happened here,...
Where Wars Go to Die
The Forgotten Literature of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
An analysis of works written during the Great War—while the fate of the world was still unknown—by W. B. Yeats, Edith Wharton, W. E. B. Du Bois, and others.
Since the hundredth anniversary of World War I, the literary canon of the war has consolidated around memoirs written in the years...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece provides a wide-ranging synthesis of history, society, and culture during the formative period of Ancient Greece, from the Age of Homer in the late eighth century to the Persian Wars of 490–480 BC. In ten clearly written and succinct chapters, leading scholars...
When They Go Low, We Go High
Speeches That Shape the World and Why We Need Them
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
When First Lady Michelle Obama approached the podium at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, nobody could have predicted that her rousing and emotional “When they go low, we go high? speech would go on to become the motto for the political left and an anthem for opponents of oppression worldwide....
Cast Out
Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Throughout history, those arrested for vagrancy have generally been poor men and women, often young, able-bodied, unemployed, and homeless. Most histories of vagrancy have focused on the European and American experiences. Cast Out: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective is...
Cold War Civil Rights
Race and the Image of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
In 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two dollars. Shocking as this sentence was, it was overturned only after intense international attention and the interference of an embarrassed John Foster Dulles. Soon after the United States' segregated...
The Icarus Syndrome
A History of American Hubris
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
“Peter Beinart has written a vivid, empathetic, and convincing history of the men and ideas that have shaped the ambitions of American foreign policy during the last century—a story in which human fallibility and idealism flow together. The story continues, of course, and so his book is not only...
Hitler's Secret Jewish Psychic
And Other Strange and Obscure History
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
A treasure trove filled with fascinating anecdotes about the tiny ripples that have caused big waves in history, Hitler’s Secret Jewish Psychic will cure you of two misconceptions: the first being that history is relentlessly boring and the second that significant historical events are caused by...
by Michael Howard
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2007
By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known. This Very Short Introduction provides a concise and insightful history of the 'Great War', focusing on why it happened, how it was fought, and why...
Vanguard of the Revolution
The Global Idea of the Communist Party
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
The first comprehensive political history of the communist party
Vanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world. The communist party was a revolutionary idea long before its supporters came to power. In this book, A....
Forgotten Voices of Burma
The Second World War's Forgotten Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
From the end of 1941 to 1945 a pivotal but often overlooked conflict was being fought in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War 2 - the Burma Campaign.
In 1941 the Allies fought in a disastrous retreat across Burma against the Japanese - an enemy more prepared, better organised and more...