World History category: 14642 books
Outnumbered
Incredible Stories of History's Most Surprising Battlefield Upsets
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Outnumbered but not Outmatched.
How did Hannibal’s 55,000 Carthaginians turn the tables on an 80,000-strong force of the ancient world’s most efficient military machine, the Roman army? What allowed 6,000 Englishmen to overcome 30,000 French at Agincourt in 1415? Which errors in judgment...
Why We're All Romans
The Roman Contribution to the Western World
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
This engaging yet deeply informed work not only examines Roman history and the multitude of Roman achievements in rich and colorful detail but also delineates their crucial and lasting impact on Western civilization. Noted historian Carl J. Richard argues that although we Westerners are "all...
by Stephen Adebanji Akintoye
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
A History of the Yoruba People is an audacious comprehensive exploration of the founding and growth of one of the most influential groups in Africa. In this commendable book, S. Adebanji Akintoye deploys four decades of historiography research with current interpretation and analyses to present the most...
by Emma Dench
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
This book evaluates a hundred years of scholarship on how empire transformed the Roman world, and advances a new theory of how the empire worked and was experienced. It engages extensively with Rome's Republican empire as well as the 'Empire of the Caesars', examines a broad range of ancient evidence...
Getting High
Marijuana through the Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
This fascinating book traces the global history of marijuana, reaching back thousands of years. Noted historian John Charles Chasteen follows the use of the drug since Neolithic times, which makes marijuana among the first domesticated plants. Surprisingly, though, only infrequently has it been used...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Oceanic Histories is the first comprehensive account of world history focused not on the land but viewed through the 70% of the Earth's surface covered by water. Leading historians trace the history of the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans and seas, from the Arctic and the Baltic to the South China...
Akụkọ ihe mere eme nke ọ bụla Mba gburugburu World ke Igbo
History of Each Country around the World in Igbo
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2015
Akụkọ ihe mere eme nke ọ bụla Mba gburugburu World ke Igbo mgbaru ọsọ bụ mejupụta uche gị na mfe mere ihe ọmụma a ebook . Na ebook dị mfe iji , ume ọhụrụ a na- ekwe nkwa na- atọ ụtọ! I nwere ike na-agụ ihe a na-enweghị ihe ọ bụla ebook tupu ihe ọmụma...
Historiae Mundi
Studies in Universal History
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
"Universal History" is a type of history that attempts to explain the world beyond the immediate surroundings of the author. It reflects a desire to synthesise the mass of written and oral knowledge about the past and to introduce a systematic interpretation. The purpose of this collection...
Beyond the Military Revolution
War in the Seventeenth Century World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The seventeenth century has long been seen as a period of 'crisis' or transition from the pre-modern to the modern world. This book offers a chance to explore this crisis from the perspective of war and military institutions in a way that should appeal to those doing global history.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Considering what has been described as an Age of Revolutions, Black assesses a formative period in world history by examining the North American, European, Haitian and Latin American Revolutions. Causes, courses and consequences are all clarified in the articles selected and an introduction charts the major themes.
Global Population
History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Concern about the size of the world's population did not begin with the "population bomb" in 1968. It arose in the aftermath of World War I and was understood as an issue with far-reaching ecological, agricultural, economic, and geopolitical consequences. The world population problem concerned...
The Mutiny on the Bounty
Texts by Captain Bligh, Sir John Farrow, and Rosalind Amelia Young
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
The Mutiny of the Bounty is one of the most famous stories in maritime history that has been told in countless books and motion pictures. It describes the arduous voyage of the H.M.S. Bounty, under the harsh rule of the strict Captain Bligh, and the eventual mutiny of much of the crew led by the Mutineer...
100 Documents That Changed the World
From Magna Carta to WikiLeaks
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
100 Documents That Changed the World brings together the most important written agreements, declarations and statements in history. The documents included here have changed the course of history by rewriting laws, granting freedoms and laying out constitutions. But as well as official charters and...
by Edith Sichel
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
MICHAEL ANGELO'S great painting of the newly created Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel might be taken as a symbol of the Renaissance, of the time when man was, as it were, re-created more glorious than before, with a body naked and unashamed, and a strong arm, unimpaired by fasting, outstretched...