World History category: 14642 books
by R E Pritchard
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Dickens's England was a time of unprecedented energy and change which laid the foundations of our own modern society. There was a new world coming into being: new towns, new machines, new and revolutionary ideas, new songs and dances, music-halls and popular novels, as well as new wealth for the smug...
Blood Diamonds
Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
First discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These "blood diamonds" are smuggled out of West Africa and sold to legitimate diamond merchants in London, Antwerp, and New York, often with the complicity of the...
The Ten Lost Tribes
A World History
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
The legendary story of the ten lost tribes of Israel has resonated among both Jews and Christians down through the centuries: the compelling idea that some core group of humanity was ''lost'' and exiled to a secret place, perhaps someday to return triumphant. In The Ten Lost Tribes, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite...
The Undivided Past
Humanity Beyond Our Differences
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
From one of our most acclaimed historians, a wise and provocative call to re-examine the way we look at the past: not merely as the story of incessant conflict between groups but also of human solidarity throughout the ages.
Investigating the six most salient categories of human identity, difference,...
Secrets of The National Archives
The Stories Behind the Letters and Documents of Our Past
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The National Archives is one of the most remarkable collections of documents in the world, holding over 120 miles of papers. In 2010 the staff at the Archives were asked to select their favourite document. The results of this poll form the basis of this book, skilfully curated by bestselling author...
The History of Terrorism
From Antiquity to ISIS
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
This authoritative work provides an essential perspective on terrorism by offering a rare opportunity for analysis and reflection at a time of ongoing violence, threats, and reprisals. Some of the best international specialists on the subject examine terrorism’s complex history from antiquity to...
by Katsuro Hara
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The principal aim of this work is to to give a general sketch, of the history of Japan. In short, the book is, strictly speaking, intended for those Europeans and Americans who would like to dip into the past, as well as peer into the future, of Japan, not as a land of quaint curios and picturesque...
by Donald B. Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
In this fascinating and exciting overview, Donald B. Freeman explores the role of the Pacific Ocean in human history.
Covering over one third of the globe, the Pacific Ocean plays a vital role in the lives and fortunes of more than two billion people who live on its rim-lands and islands. It...
Beyond the Age of Innocence
Rebuilding Trust Between America and the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
After publishing articles in leading American journals for over two decades, Kishore Mahbubani was described as "an Asian Toynbee, preoccupied with the rise and fall of civilizations" by The Economist. Trained in philosophy in North America and Asia, and well-experienced in real politik...
by H. G. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
This is the annotated edition including the rare biographical essay by Edwin E. Slosson called "H. G. Wells - A Major Prophet Of His Time". No book is provoking a more animated discussion among students of the social sciences at the present time than H. G. Wells' Outline of History. The...
Lost to Time
Unforgettable Stories That History Forgot
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Stories that history forgot…but readers will remember“The only thing new in the world,” said Harry S. Truman, “is the history you don't know.” In this fresh and fascinating collection of historical vignettes, Martin W. Sandler (author of Resolute and Atlantic Ocean) restores to memory important...
Holocaust Survivor Accounts: True Stories of Prisoners Surviving the Holocaust: Holocaust Survivor Stories and Heroes of Auschwitz
Holocaust Survivor Accounts, #2
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
The Holocaust, (called Ha-Shoah in Hebrew) refers to the state sponsored murder and persecution of about six million Jews by the German Nazi regime and its collaborators, leading into and during the Second World War. The word itself means, "Sacrifice by fire".
The Holocaust has no...
The Victorian Internet
The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
A new edition of the first book by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses-the fascinating story of the telegraph, the world's first "Internet," which revolutionized the nineteenth century even more than the Internet has the twentieth and twenty first.
The Victorian...
The Measure of All Things
The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
In June 1792, amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions on an extraordinary journey. Starting in Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre would make his way north to Dunkirk, while Pierre-François-André Méchain voyaged south to Barcelona. Their...