World History category: 14642 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
The pieces in this book form an excellent introduction to the military history of World War I that will also prove valuable to specialists in the subject.' Professor Gary Sheffield World War I changed the face of the 20th century. For four long years the major European powers, later joined by America,...
The Pirate World
A History of the Most Notorious Sea Robbers
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Highly illustrated with colour images and specially commissioned maps throughout, this is a unique exploration of the pirate world.
Often romanticised in print and on the silver screen, real-life pirates were a brutal menace that plagued the high seas. In this book, Angus Konstam separates...
by Martin Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
In The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War, Martin Gilbert graphically charts the war’s political, military, economic and social history through 247 maps. Each map has been specially drawn for this atlas, many of them covering topics that have not previously been mapped. The atlas covers all...
by Eric A. McMiller
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
This book adds the missing pages of history and restores the original first family to their rightful place by weaving together discoveries from the past thirty years with common knowledge about Africans and their descendants into a complete story. Written in the twenty-first century, this book is...
The Human Footprint
A Global Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The Human Footprint: A Global Environmental History, Second Edition, presents a multidisciplinary global history of Earth from its origins to the present day.
Provides a comprehensive, global, multidisciplinary history of the planet from its earliest origins to the present era
Draws on the most...
To Destroy A City
Strategic Bombing And Its Human Consequences In World War 2
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Herman Knell was nineteen and living in Würtzburg in March of 1945 when hundreds of Allied planes arrived overhead, unleashing a torrent of bombs on the city. Würtzburg's tightly packed medieval housing exploded in a firestorm, killing six thousand people in one night and destroying 92 percent of...
The Flu Epidemic of 1918
America's Experience in the Global Health Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
In 1918, a devastating world-wide influenza epidemic hit the United States. Killing over 600,000 Americans and causing the national death rate to jump 30% in a single year, the outbreak obstructed the country's participation in World War I and imposed terrible challenges on communities across the...
Islamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
First published in 1988, Ira Lapidus' A History of Islamic Societies has become a classic in the field, enlightening students, scholars, and others with a thirst for knowledge about one of the world's great civilizations. This book, based on fully revised and updated parts one and two of this monumental...
Modern Naval History
Debates and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Specifically structured around research questions and avenues for further study, and providing the historical context to enable this further research, Modern Naval History is a key historiographical guide for students wishing to gain a deeper understanding of naval history and its contemporary relevance.
Navies...
The Cold War through Documents
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
This comprehensive collection of carefully edited documents—speeches, treaties, statements, and articles—traces the rise and fall of the Cold War. The sources follow the Cold War from its roots in East–West tensions at the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Set...
The New World (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries England underwent a startling series of transformations. The turbulent reigns of the Tudors and Stuarts witnessed the Protestant Reformation, the growth of powerful monarchies, the English Civil War, and the colonization of the new world. In this, the second...
China and the West to 1600
Empire, Philosophy, and the Paradox of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
A comparative history of Chinese and Western Civilization from the dawn of agriculture to the dawn of modernity in Europe, China and the West to 1600 explores the factors that led to the divergent evolution of two major cultures of the ancient world, and considers how the subsequent developments saw...
A History of the Girl
Formation, Education and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
This book is centered on the history of the girl from the medieval period through to the early twenty-first century. Authored by an international team of scholars, the volume explores the transition from adolescent girlhood to young womanhood, the formation and education of girls in the home and in...
The New World (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries England underwent a startling series of transformations. The turbulent reigns of the Tudors and Stuarts witnessed the Protestant Reformation, the growth of powerful monarchies,...