World History category: 14642 books
Scientism and Technocracy in the Twentieth Century
The Legacy of Scientific Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Scientism, or the application of methods, attitudes, and concepts drawn from the natural sciences to human activities and social policy formation, is a pervasive feature of modern life, and it is one which has immense impact upon virtually all aspects of our private and public lives. This work explores...
The British Economy since 1914
A Study in Decline?
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
An up to date short study which examines the key debates on British economic performance since 1914. Rex Pope considers the indicators and measures involved in assessing economic performance and then looks at issues affecting the economy such as the role of government, British entrepreneurship, the...
A Political Life in Ming China
A Grand Secretary and His Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
This fascinating history uncovers the hidden political world of Ming China, exploring how the most powerful man in mid-sixteenth-century China steered the empire through the worst crises it had ever faced. Distinguished scholar John W. Dardess traces the life of Chief Grand Secretary Xu Jie (1503–1583),...
Empire to Nation
Historical Perspectives on the Making of the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2006
The fall of empires and the rise of nation-states was a defining political transition in the making of the modern world. As United States imperialism becomes a popular focus of debate, we must understand how empire, the nineteenth century's dominant form of large-scale political organization, had...
The Mapmaker's Wife
A True Tale Of Love, Murder, And Survival In The Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their incredible mission revealed the mysteries of a little-known...
by Sarah D. Giese
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Making learning fun and interactive builds excitment for your social studies students. This book includes game-formatted activities for the study of land and water forms, map components, latitude and longitude, climate, vegetation, plate tectonics, natural disasters, global water issues, economics,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Previously published as a special issue of Patterns of Prejudice, this is the first book to link colonialism and genocide in a systematic way in the context of world history. It fills a significant gap in the current understanding on genocide and the Holocaust, which sees them overwhelmingly as twentieth...
by Fiona Venn
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In October 1973 two crises – one economic, one political – intersected, with dramatic and long term consequences for international relations. On 6 October, Egypt and Syria launched an attack on Israel, and within a few days the major Arab oil producers announced their support by use of the ‘oil...
by Richard Green
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2004
This volume contains dedicated chronologies for all the major organizations, such as the UN, the Arab League, NATO, OPEC, the African Union, OAS, WTO, ASEAN and the IMF, whilst an introductory chronology covers the general development of international organizations.
As the role of international...
Paul Kagame and Rwanda
Power, Genocide and the Rwandan Patriotic Front
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
In 1994, ethnic conflict turned to genocide in Rwanda. When the world finally took notice, a million people lay dead, and the small African country lay in ruins. Rwanda returned from the brink guided by rulers determined to rebuild the country on their own terms, rather than those of a previously...
by Jean Berenger, C.A. Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This is the eagerly awaited second volume of Jean Bérenger's history of the Habsburgs. It covers the last two centuries of their rule and provides a compelling account of the fluctuations of Habsburg dynastic power and its disintegration after World War One. Bérenger gives a rich portrait of Habsburg...
by Norman Berdichevsky
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Denmark, the southernmost Nordic nation, remains little-known to many citizens of the world. Too often conflated with its Scandinavian neighbors to the north, it is a land of generally flat terrain, with an inviting temperate climate. The land of the Danes has much to offer visitors, and this guide...
From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean
The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this study explores the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from a small outpost in the Persian Empire. Based in New Julfa, Isfahan, in what is now Iran,...
Babel No More
The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
A “fascinating” (The Economist) dive into the world of linguistics that is “part travelogue, part science lesson, part intellectual investigation…an entertaining, informative survey of some of the most fascinating polyglots of our time” (The New York Times Book Review).
In Babel No...