World History category: 14642 books
by Rupert Colley
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Lasting six years and a day, the Second World War saw the lives of millions – soldiers and civilians, young and old – changed forever. During the conflict, a thousand people died for each and every hour it lasted. With eighty-one of the world’s...
Bodies in Contact
Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2005
From portrayals of African women’s bodies in early modern European travel accounts to the relation between celibacy and Indian nationalism to the fate of the Korean “comfort women” forced into prostitution by the occupying Japanese army during the Second World War, the essays collected in Bodies...
by Sebastian Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
As editor Kenneth E. Hendrickson, III, notes in his introduction: “Since the end of the nineteenth-century, industrialization has become a global phenomenon. After the relative completion of the advanced industrial economies of the West after 1945, patterns of rapid economic change invaded societies...
World History 101
From ancient Mesopotamia and the Viking conquests to NATO and WikiLeaks, an essential primer on world history
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Uncover the mysteries of the past with this exciting, comprehensive guide on world history.
History books are often filled with long descriptions, complex facts, and stories that can bore even the most enthusiastic history buffs. In World History 101 you’ll skip those tedious details and...
by Mark B. Tauger
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Civilization from its origins has depended on the food, fibre, and other commodities produced by farmers. In this unique exploration of the world history of agriculture, Mark B. Tauger looks at farmers, farming, and their relationships to non-farmers from the classical societies of the Mediterranean...
Five Cities that Ruled the World
How Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and New York Shaped Global History
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
In Five Cities that Ruled the World, theologian Douglas Wilson fuses together, in compelling detail, the critical moments birthed in history’s most influential cities —Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and New York.
Wilson issues a challenge to our collective understanding of history with...
by Peter N. Stearns
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
In Peace in World History, Peter N. Stearns examines the ideas of peace that have existed throughout history, and how societies have sought to put them into practice. Beginning with the status of peace in early hunter-gatherer and agricultural societies, and continuing through the present day, the...
Moment of Battle
The Twenty Clashes That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Two modern masters of military history make their case for the twenty most pivotal battles of all time, in a riveting trip through the ages to those moments when the fate of the world hung in the balance.
In the grand tradition of Edward Creasy’s classic Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World,...
by The Princeton Review
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
LIKE CLASS NOTES—ONLY BETTER. The Princeton Review's ASAP World History is designed to help you zero in on just the information you need to know to successfully grapple with the AP test.
Advanced Placement exams require students to have a firm grasp of content—you can't bluff or even logic...
by Chris Cook, John Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2005
The Routledge Companion to World History since 1914 is an outstanding compendium of facts and figures on World History. Fully up-to-date, reliable and clear, this volume is the indispensable source of information on a thorough range of topics such as:
the Arab-Israeli conflict
anti-semitism and...
The New World History
A Field Guide for Teachers and Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
The New World History is a comprehensive volume of essays selected to enrich world history teaching and scholarship in this rapidly expanding field. The forty-four articles in this book take stock of the history, evolving literature, and current trajectories of new world history. These essays, together...
A Primer for Teaching World History
Ten Design Principles
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
A Primer for Teaching World History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are designing an introductory-level world history syllabus for the first time, for those who already teach world history and are seeking new ideas or approaches, and for those who train future teachers to prepare...
by Stewart Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Stories of disasters at sea, whether about Roman triremes, the treasure fleet of the Spanish Main, or great transatlantic ocean liners, fire the imagination as little else can. From the historical sinkings of the Titanic and the Lusitania to the recent capsizing of a Mediterranean cruise ship, the...