World History category: 14642 books
Naval Warfare 1919-45
An Operational History of the Volatile War at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
Naval Warfare 1919–45 is a comprehensive history of the war at sea from the end of the Great War to the end of World War Two. Showing the bewildering nature and complexity of the war facing those charged with fighting it around the world, this book ranges far and wide: sweeping across all naval...
by Andrew Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Part of the ‘Making History Series’ – ‘Waterloo’ is an exciting retelling of one of the moments that shook the world – Waterloo, one of the truly decisive battles of history. The illustrious ‘Making History Series’, edited by Lisa Jardine and Amanda Foreman, explores an eclectic mix...
The Great Leveler
Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that it never dies peacefully. The Great Leveler...
The Reckoning
Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Whether building a road or fighting a war, leaders from ancient Mesopotamia to the present have relied on financial accounting to track their state's assets and guide its policies. Basic accounting tools such as auditing and double-entry bookkeeping form the basis of modern capitalism and the nation-state....
1492
The Year the World Began
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
1492: The Year the World Began is a look at one of the most fascinating years in world history, the year when many believe the modern world was born. Historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, author of Millennium, covers such iconic figures as Christopher Columbus and Alexander Borgia and explores cultures...
The Great and Holy War
How World War I Became a Religious Crusade
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War. At the one-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the war, historian Philip Jenkins reveals the powerful religious dimensions of this modern-day crusade, a period that marked a traumatic crisis...
by Sinead Fitzgibbon
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. The sinking of the Titanic 100 years ago in 1912, and the subsequent deaths of over 1,500 passengers, sent shock waves around the world. Never before or since has a maritime disaster in a time of peace had such an impact. TITANIC: HISTORY IN AN...
Picturing the Pacific
Joseph Banks and the shipboard artists of Cook and Flinders
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
For over 50 years between the 1760s and the early 19th century, the pioneers who sailed from Europe to explore the Pacific brought back glimpses of a new world in the form of oil paintings, watercolors and drawings--a sensational view of a part of the world few would ever see. Today these works represent...
by Alaine Low, Wm. Roger Louis
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1998
Volume II of the Oxford History of the British Empire examines the history of British worldwide expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a crucial phase in the creation of the modern British Empire. This is the age of General Wolfe, Clive of India, and Captain...
Summits
Six Meetings That Shaped the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
The Cold War dominated world history for nearly half a century, locking two superpowers in a global rivalry that only ended with the Soviet collapse. The most decisive moments of twentieth-century diplomacy occurred when world leaders met face to face-from the mishandled summit in Munich, 1938, which...
World War II Warplanes
The Iconic Warplanes of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2013
World War II WARPLANES: The Iconic WarBirds of World War 2 is a kids and enthusiasts dream of what it would be like to fly in the most feared and deadly aircraft of the Second World War. The book depicts many of the iconic airplanes that impacted air battles of the war. From the...
In the Ruins of Empire
The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
The New York Times said of Ronald H. Spector’s classic account of the American struggle against the Japanese in World War II, “No future book on the Pacific War will be written without paying due tribute to Eagle Against the Sun.” Now Spector has returned with a book that is even more revealing....
by Hendrik Willem van Loon
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
A Dutch-American historian, journalist, and award-winning children's book author. Contents The Story of Mankind Ancient Man, The Beginning of Civilizations The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 (1915)
The Story of Mankind- Most widely known among these...
by Ulrich Raulff
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
A surprising, lively, and erudite history of horse and man, for readers of The Invention of Nature and The Soul of an Octopus.
Horses and humans share an ancient, profoundly complex relationship. Once our most indispensable companions, horses were for millennia essential in helping build our...