World History category: 14642 books
Ireland in an Imperial World
Citizenship, Opportunism, and Subversion
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Ireland in an Imperial World interrogates the myriad ways through which Irish men and women experienced, participated in, and challenged empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Most importantly, they were integral players simultaneously managing and undermining the British Empire, and through...
Sport and the British World, 1900-1930
Amateurism and National Identity in Australasia and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
This book provides a lively study of the role that Australians and New Zealanders played in defining the British sporting concept of amateurism. In doing so, they contributed to understandings of wider British identity across the sporting world.
Tea
The Drink That Changed The World
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Tea is a phenomenon that has changed the attitudes of one nation to another, exposed divisions of class and race, ossified social behaviour, shaped the ethics of business, influenced relations between management and labour and led to significant advances in medicine. "Tea" is a comprehensive study of...
Atlantic History
A Critical Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2008
Atlantic history, with its emphasis on inter-regional developments that transcend national borders, has risen to prominence as a fruitful perspective through which to study the interconnections among Europe, North America, Latin America, and Africa. These original essays present a comprehensive and...
In Flanders Fields
Scottish Poetry and Prose of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
This anthology is the first ever acknowledgement of Scotland's unique contribution to the literature of the First World War. Here are gathered together well-known writers like John Buchan, Eric Linklater, Hugh MacDiarmid and Compton Mackenzie, as well as poets like Joseph Lee and Roderick Watson Kerr,...
by U.S. Government
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
On September 30, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned to Britain and promised the British peace for our time in reference to the agreement signed the day before between him, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini in Munich. Of course, Neville Chamberlain and Munich would become synonymous...
Geopolitical Constructs
The Mulberry Harbours, World War Two, and the Making of a Militarized Transatlantic
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
This innovative book tells a unique story about D-Day, one that does not concentrate on the soldiers who hit the beaches or the admirals and generals who commanded them. Instead, Colin Flint brings engineers, businessmen, and bureaucrats to center stage. Through them, he offers a different way of...
by Arthur Cotterell
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
An original and unique work of reference which breaks new ground by treating for the first time the classical era of the Old World as a whole. Never before have the key peoples and events of Greece, Rome, Persia, India, and China been encompassed in a single volume, despite the fact their civilizations...
Old World Empires
Cultures of Power and Governance in Eurasia
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
This book is a sweeping historical survey of the origins, development and nature of state power. It demonstrates that Eurasia is home to a dominant tradition of arbitrary rule mediated through military, civil and ecclesiastical servants and a marginal tradition of representative and responsible government...
The Devil's Gardens
The Story of Landmines
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
'The image I have is a kid on a country lane on a Saturday afternoon herding his family cattle, meaning no harm to anybody and putting one step wrong. It's one thing to die in combat, it's one thing to die defending land, but it's another thing to die tending cattle on a Saturday afternoon and we...
The Vanguard of the Atlantic World
Creating Modernity, Nation, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
In the nineteenth century, Latin America was home to the majority of the world's democratic republics. Many historians have dismissed these political experiments as corrupt pantomimes of governments of Western Europe and the United States. Challenging that perspective, James E. Sanders contends that...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This book explores the theme of violence, repression and atrocity in imperial and colonial empires, as well as its representations and memories, from the late eighteenth through to the twentieth century. It examines the wide variety of violent means by which colonies and empire were maintained in...
by Jordan Wells
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Greek Mythology: Of Gods, Mortals, Monsters & Other Legends of Ancient Greece
Ready for the adventures of Greek mythology? Of all the myths and legends of the ancient world, it is Greek mythology that is most celebrated and richest with its characters, themes and stories. Modern adaptations...
Opium Traders and Their Worlds-Volume One
A Revisionist Exposé of the World's Greatest Opium Traders
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2008
Opium Traders and Their Worlds examines the opium trade with a detective's investigative approach. The author uses evidence to dismiss many of the false claims commonly held with regard to the so-called "legitimacy" of the Old China trade, presents proof of important figures who were deeply...