World History category: 14642 books
ARCHITECTURAL MASTER PIECES IN III OF IV VOLUMES
ART & DESIGN IN ARCHITECTURE - MADE VISIBLE - MICHAEL ROBERT MUMFORD
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Here in Britain we start with Stonehenge, our most impressive prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire. Originally planned as a downloadable PDF eBook available on all Platforms. 1100+ pages, 18 Chapters. Art & Design in Architecture: made visible. A Visual Record of World...
Empires of the Word
A Language History of the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. From the uncanny resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries...
The Silk Roads
A New History of the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward...
by Martin Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
'An unusual and compelling insight into Jewish history... sheer detail and breadth of scale' BBC History Magazine
This newly revised and updated edition of Martin Gilbert’s Atlas of Jewish History spans over four thousand years of history in 154 maps, presenting a vivid picture of a fascinating...
How Chance and Stupidity Have Changed History
The Hinge Factor
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
From the Trojan Horse to a photograph snapped in Vietnam, world history has been shaped as much by chance and error as by courage and heroism. Despite impossible odds, invincible armies fall in bitter defeat to weaker opponents. How and why does this happen? What decides the fate of battle? In this...
Titans of History
The Giants Who Made Our World
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
In this inspiring, horrifying, and accessible collection of short, entertaining, and vivid life stories, Simon Sebag Montefiore—one of our pre-eminent historians and a prizewinning writer—presents the giant characters who have changed the course of world history.
These titans of history—encompassing...
by E. H. Gombrich, Clifford Harper
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
E. H. Gombrich’s bestselling history of the world for young readers tells the story of mankind from the Stone Age to the atomic bomb, focusing not on small detail but on the sweep of human experience, the extent of human achievement, and the depth of its frailty. The product of a generous and humane...
Ancient Worlds
A Global History of Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
"As panoramic as it is learned, this is ancient history for our globalized world."
Tom Holland, author of Dynasty and Rubicon
Twenty-five-hundred years ago, civilizations around the world entered a revolutionary new era that overturned old order and laid the foundation for our world...
by Xinru Liu
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
The Silk Road was the contemporary name for a complex of ancient trade routes linking East Asia with Central Asia, South Asia, and the Mediterranean world. This network of exchange emerged along the borders between agricultural China and the steppe nomads during the Han Dynasty (206BCE-220CE), in...
Blood and Sand
Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's Campaign for Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
A lively, revelatory popular history that tells the story of both the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956—a tale of conspiracy and revolutions, spies and terrorists, kidnappings and assassination plots, the fall of the British Empire and the rise of American hegemony under the heroic...
In God's Path
The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In just over a hundred years--from the death of Muhammad in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750--the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain. Their armies threatened states as far flung as the Franks in Western Europe and the Tang...
Running the World
The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Never before in the history of mankind have so few people had so much power over so many. The people at the top of the American national security establishment, the President and his principal advisors, the core team at the helm of the National Security Council, are without question the most powerful...
by Tatyana Fedulova
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Brief Guide to the History of Architectural Styles is a full-color illustrated edition of the classic study of the history of European architecture.This handbook has been written by Tatyana Fedulova - Russian art critic, lecturer and popularize of history of Fine Arts, the expert in the History of...
History without the Boring Bits
A Curious Chronology of the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Conventional chronologies of world history concentrate on the reigns of kings and queens, the dates of battles and treaties, the publication dates of great books, the completion of famous buildings, the deaths of iconic figures, and the years of major discoveries. But there are other more interesting...