World History category: 14642 books
by Samir Amin
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Since its first publication twenty years ago, Eurocentrism has become a classic of radical thought. Written by one of the world's foremost political economists, this original and provocative essay takes on one of the great "ideological deformations" of our time: Eurocentrism. Rejecting the dominant...
Religious Internationals in the Modern World
Globalization and Faith Communities since 1750
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Tracing the emergence of 'Religious Internationals' as a distinctive new phenomenon in world history, this book transforms our understanding of the role of religion in our modern world. Through in-depth studies comparing the experiences of Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jews and Muslims, leading experts shed new light on 'global civil society'.
The Haitian Declaration of Independence
Creation, Context, and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
While the Age of Revolution has long been associated with the French and American Revolutions, increasing attention is being paid to the Haitian Revolution as the third great event in the making of the modern world. A product of the only successful slave revolution in history, Haiti’s Declaration...
A History of Science in Society, Volume I
From the Ancient Greeks to the Scientific Revolution, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A History of Science in Society is a concise overview that introduces complex ideas in a non-technical fashion. Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful. Volume I...
Connectivity in Motion
Island Hubs in the Indian Ocean World
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This original collection brings islands to the fore in a growing body of scholarship on the Indian Ocean, examining them as hubs or points of convergence and divergence in a world of maritime movements and exchanges. Straddling history and anthropology and grounded in the framework of connectivity,...
Playing with the Past
Digital Games and the Simulation of History
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Game Studies is a rapidly growing area of contemporary scholarship, yet volumes in the area have tended to focus on more general issues. With Playing with the Past, game studies is taken to the next level by offering a specific and detailed analysis of one area of digital game play -- the representation...
Moral Nation
Modern Japan and Narcotics in Global History
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
This trailblazing study examines the history of narcotics in Japan to explain the development of global criteria for political legitimacy in nations and empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Japan underwent three distinct crises of sovereignty in its modern history: in the 1890s,...
Poison
A History and a Family Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2002
"Readers with a strong stomach will enjoy this unusual memoir laced with a natural history of poison." - Publishers Weekly
Years after Dr. William Macbeth died, his ornate medicine case passed to his estranged son. Over the protests of his family, the son buried it deep in the ground,...
The Course of History
Ten Meals That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
An entertaining seat at the table of ten power meals that shaped history—including the menus and recreated recipes!
Some of the most consequential decisions in history were decided at the dinner table, accompanied-and perhaps influenced-by copious amounts of food and drink. This fascinating...
Interpreting Our World: 100 Discoveries That Revolutionized Geography
100 Discoveries That Revolutionized Geography
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
This important book demonstrates why geography matters in the modern-day world through its examination of 100 moments throughout history that had a significant impact on the study of geography—literally, "writing about the earth."
• Provides readers with an understanding of why...
Black London
The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
This vibrant history of London in the twentieth century reveals the city as a key site in the development of black internationalism and anticolonialism. Marc Matera shows the significant contributions of people of African descent to London’s rich social and cultural history, masterfully weaving...
by Lucy Inglis
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
An intelligent and authoritative history of opium—a drug that has both healed and harmed since the beginning of civilization.
Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the “Milk of Paradise” for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer of sleep,...
by Jack J. Kanski
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Jack J. Kanski brings us a concise, illustrated book covering the history of France, the Low Countries and Iberia, which provides readers with key information about significant individuals and events that have shaped the history of these countries.
In History of France, Low Countries and...
by Timothy Stapleton
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
This book examines the causes, course and consequences of warfare in twentieth century Africa, a period which spanned colonial rebellions, both World Wars, and the decolonization process. Timothy Stapleton contextualizes the essential debates and controversies surrounding African conflict in the twentieth...