World History category: 14642 books
Documentary, World History, and National Power in the PRC
Global Rise in Chinese Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Documentaries have recently become a favourite format for Chinese state-directed media to present an officially sanctioned view of history. Indeed, this is not confined to Chinese national history. In stark contrast to the earlier self-centred preoccupation with Chinese history, there has been an...
by Peter N. Stearns
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
This book examines sexuality in the past, and explores how it helps explain sexuality in the present. The subject of sexuality is often a controversial one, and exploring it through a world history perspective emphasizes the extent to which societies, including our own, are still reacting to historical...
by David G. Troyansky
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
In Aging in World History, David G. Troyansky presents the first global history of aging. At a time when demographic aging has become a source of worldwide concern, and more people are reaching an advanced age than ever before, the history of old age helps us understand how we arrived at the treatment...
Encounters Old and New in World History
Essays Inspired by Jerry H. Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This collection of essays asserts the specific value of world history research and teaching, showing how the field contributes to the larger historical profession and offering concrete suggestions to develop more interaction between the academy and the public. The twelve contributors, each with their...
by Emma Marriott
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
The history of our world can be told through numbers. Numbers can illuminate the broad sweep of history, from vast movements of populations and the expansion of empires to the effects of technological achievements or climatic change. They also allow us to drill into the real detail of history, from...
PRAXIS II History/Social Studies Test Prep Review--Exambusters World History Flash Cards
PRAXIS II Exam Study Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
"PRAXIS HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES Study Guide 2 of 2: WORLD HISTORY" 600 questions and answers (ILLUSTRATED). Essential names, dates, and summaries of key historical events. Topics: Ancient Egypt and Asia, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Early Asia, Evolution of Religion, Middle Ages, Early Modern...
Cultural Change in Modern World History
Cases, Causes and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
In this innovative textbook, leading world historian Peter Stearns analyses key examples of culture change from around the world, highlighting what culture change involves and how it can be explained and assessed, both historically and in the contemporary world.
Culture change is one of the...
History at War
The Campaigns of an Historian
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
History at War is a unique book. It throws light on important unexplored aspects of the pursuit of historical truth. It tells how, alone among historians, Noble Frankland fought in the bomber offensive during the Second World War and then, together with Sir Charles Webster, wrote its official history;...
A Political History of the World
Three Thousand Years of War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
A three-thousand year history of the world that examines the causes of war and the search for peace
In three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 per cent of its lifetime. Since 1776, the United States...
by Neil MacGregor
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
**"An enthralling and profoundly humane book that every civilized person should read."
--The Wall Street Journal
The blockbuster New York Times bestseller and the companion volume to the wildly popular radio series**
When did people first start to wear jewelry or play music?...
by Henry Kissinger
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
“Dazzling and instructive . . . [a] magisterial new book.” —Walter Isaacson, Time
Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era—advising...
The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Revisit a world of conquest, exploration, and imperial adventure with this Modern Library eBook bundle that includes Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Francis Parkman’s Montcalm and Wolfe, William H. Prescott’s History of the Conquest of Mexico, and Theodore Roosevelt’s...
Shadows on the Mountain
The Allies, the Resistance, and the Rivalries that Doomed WWII Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
An in-depth look at a crucial, little-known World War II episode—the failed Allied policy in Yugoslavia and its ramifications in the Balkans and beyond
Winston Churchill called it one of his biggest wartime failures—the shift of British and U.S. support from Yugoslavia's Draža Mihailovic...
by Andrew Marr
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Fresh, exciting and vividly readable, this is popular history at its very best.
Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly global journey Andrew Marr revisits some of the traditional...