World History category: 14642 books

1966 was an iconic year in an incredible decade. The Beatles were at the height of their fame, England won the World Cup, and Bet Lynch made her debut in the Rovers Return. Now, 50 years later, for anyone who was around in this unforgettable year it still seems like yesterday. This collection of memories...

In recent years, historians across the world have become increasingly interested in transnational and global approaches to the past. However, the debates surrounding this new border-crossing movement have remained limited in scope as theoretical exchanges on the tasks, responsibilities and potentials...

The New Deal: A Global History provides a radically new interpretation of a pivotal period in US history. The first comprehensive study of the New Deal in a global context, the book compares American responses to the international crisis of capitalism and democracy during the 1930s to responses by...

Antarctica Biological Scientific History.24 hours Sunlight. General Environment and Climate change. A Book on Antarctica, find out about our Earth and the changes. Apiece of the World with the entire prove of World environment. The Antarctic continent is a land mass covered with ice up to 4 km thick....

The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839–42....

Covering two hundred years, this groundbreaking book brings together essays on borderlands by leading experts in the modern history of the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia to offer the first historical study of borderlands with a global reach.

Examining the 160 year relationship between America and Japan, this cutting edge collection considers the evolution of the relationship of these two nations which straddle the Pacific, from the first encounters in the 19th century to major international shifts in a post 9/11 world. It examines the...

*Includes the following documents: The Munich Pact, Germany's Invasion of Poland, The Allies Response to the invasion, Pearl Harbor Documents, German Declaration of War against the United States, Armistice with Italy, Yalta Conference, and Germany's surrender to the Allies. On September 1, 1939, the...

On September 1, 1939, the world was changed forever. Despite several attempts by the French and British to appease Hitlers Nazi regime to avoid war, most notably allowing Hitler to annex the Czechs Sudetenland, Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, officially starting the deadliest conflict in...

A survey of U.S. history from its beginnings to the present, American History Unbound reveals our past through the lens of Asian American and Pacific Islander history. In so doing, it is a work of both history and anti-history, a narrative that fundamentally transforms and deepens our understanding...

An insightful exploration of history's 30 most influential popular revolutions and a celebration of people power-from Boudicca's uprising in AD 60 to the Arab Spring of 2011   Popular revolution has forged global superpowers, shaken empires, brought a halt to oppression, upended social...

Surfing today evokes many things: thundering waves, warm beaches, bikinis and lifeguards, and carefree pleasure. But is the story of surfing really as simple as popular culture suggests? In this first international political history of the sport, Scott Laderman shows that while wave riding is indeed...

101 Most Horrible Tortures In History misses out all the boring stuff and gets straight to the very sharp point, the weird, bizarre and even a bit of the gore! Often when learning history at school, we'd all squirm in our chairs at hearing about the odd bit of torture or terrible execution but...

This handbook provides the first systematic integrated analysis of the role that states or state actors play in the construction of history and public memory after 1945. The book focuses on many different forms of state-sponsored history, including memory laws, monuments and memorials, state-archives,...