World History category: 14642 books
by William Weir
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Rather than celebrating warfare, 50 Battles That Changed the World looks at the clashes the author believes have had the most profound impact on world history. Ranked in order of their relevance to the modern world, these struggles range from the ancient past to the present day and span the globe...
Science and Technology in World History, Volume 2
Early Christianity, the Rise of Islam and the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Science is a living, organic activity, the meaning and understanding of which have evolved incrementally over human history. This book, the second in a roughly chronological series, explores the evolution of science from the advents of Christianity and Islam through the Middle Ages, focusing especially...
The Worlds of Positivism
A Global Intellectual History, 1770–1930
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
This book is the first to trace the origins and significance of positivism on a global scale. Taking their cues from Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill, positivists pioneered a universal, experience-based culture of scientific inquiry for studying nature and society—a new science that would enlighten...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Starting in the late nineteenth century, scholars and activists all over the world suddenly began to insist that understandings of sex be based on science. As Japanese and Indian sexologists influenced their German, British, and American counterparts and vice versa, sexuality, modernity, and imaginings...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Robert Irwin's authoritative introduction to the fourth volume of The New Cambridge History of Islam offers a panoramic vision of Islamic culture from its origins to around 1800. The introductory chapter, which highlights key developments and introduces some of Islam's most famous protagonists, paves...
Blind Spot
The Secret History of American Counterterrorism
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
In this revelatory new account, national security expert Timothy Naftali relates the full story of America's decades-long attempt to fight terrorism. On September 11, 2001, a long history of failures and missteps came to a head, with tragic results. But, explains Naftali, it didn't have to be so....
The Third Wave
Democratization in the Late 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Between 1974 and 1990 more than thirty countries in southern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe shifted from authoritarian to democratic systems of government. This global democratic revolution is probably the most important political trend in the late twentieth century. In The Third...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Unparalleled in its range of topics and geographical scope, the sixth and final volume of The New Cambridge History of Islam provides a comprehensive overview of Muslim culture and society since 1800. Robert Hefner's thought-provoking account of the political and intellectual transformation of the...
NGOs
A New History of Transnational Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
In the first historical account of international NGOs, from the French Revolution to the present, Thomas Davies places the contemporary debate on transnational civil society in context. In contrast to the conventional wisdom, which sees transnational civil society as a recent development taking place...
Out of Our Minds
What We Think and How We Came to Think It
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
"A stimulating history of how the imagination interacted with its sibling psychological faculties—emotion, perception and reason—to shape the history of human mental life."—The Wall Street Journal
To imagine—to see what is not there—is the startling ability that has fueled human development...
Women in Transnational History
Connecting the Local and the Global
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Women in Transnational History offers a range of fresh perspectives on the field of women’s history, exploring how cross-border connections and global developments since the nineteenth century have shaped diverse women’s lives and the gendered social, cultural, political and economic histories...
by Ilham Khuri-Makdisi
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
In this groundbreaking book, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi establishes the existence of a special radical trajectory spanning four continents and linking Beirut, Cairo, and Alexandria between 1860 and 1914. She shows that socialist and anarchist ideas were regularly discussed, disseminated, and reworked among...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2004
Memory and the Impact of Political Transformation in Public Space explores the effects of major upheavals—wars, decolonization, and other social and economic changes—on the ways in which public histories are presented around the world. Examining issues related to public memory in twelve countries,...
Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai
Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for millennia, but during the long seventeenth...