World History category: 14642 books
A Thirst for Empire
How Tea Shaped the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
How the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerism
Tea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. Over centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its cultivation brought about massive changes—in...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Twenty-eight intimate and unconventional autobiographies of the nation/state, told by historians from their respective countries.
Global histories tend to be written from the narrow viewpoint of a single author and a single perspective, with the inevitable bias that it entails. But in this...
The Woman Writer
The History of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Since its creation in 1894 by Joseph Snell Wood, the Society of Women Writers & Journalists has attracted the company of many famous women writers, journalists, poets and playwrights. From its early days when at least 200 women applied to join, the Society has expanded to become a world-renowned...
Empire, Colony, Genocide
Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
In 1944, Raphael Lemkin coined the term “genocide” to describe a foreign occupation that destroyed or permanently crippled a subject population. In this tradition, Empire, Colony, Genocide embeds genocide in the epochal geopolitical transformations of the past 500 years: the European colonization...
by Ronald Hee
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
April is an interesting month. Just through April, it’s possible to gain a fascinating glimpse of the history of the world. It’s a month full of wars, disasters, achievements, and leaders great and not so great:
•The American Civil War started and ended in April.
•The founder of the...
Between Sex and Power
Family in the World 1900-2000
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
The institution of the family changed hugely during the course of the twentieth century. In this major new work, Göran Therborn provides a global history and sociology of the family as an institution and of politics within the family, focusing on three dimensions of family relations: on the rights...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 1988
This book makes two distinctive contributions to one of the most fundamental debates in modern European history. First, it presents readable and judicious accounts of the events and decisions directly precipitating the outbreak of war in each of the main belligerent countries; second, it assesses...
by Diego Lazzarich, Cinzia Blum, Allison Scardino Belzer
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Italy and the Cultural Politics of World War I dialogues with the variety of texts recently published to commemorate the Great War. It explores Italian socialist pacifism, the role of women during the conflict and a dominant cultural movement, Futurism, whose leader, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, glorified...
Irish and Scottish Encounters with Indigenous Peoples
Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The expansion of the British Empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries created the greatest mass migration in human history, in which the Irish and Scots played a central, complex, and controversial role. The essays in this volume explore the diverse encounters Irish and Scottish migrants...
Making Money
Life, Death, and Early Modern Trade on Africa’s Guinea Coast
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
A new era in world history began when Atlantic maritime trade among Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas opened up in the fifteenth century, setting the stage for massive economic and cultural change. In Making Money, Colleen Kriger examines the influence of the global trade on the Upper Guinea...
WE, THE ANARCHISTS
A Study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) 1927-1937
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Since the official birth of organized anarchism at the Saint Imier Congress of 1872, no anarchist organization has been held up to greater opprobrium or subjected to such gross misrepresentation than the Federación Anarquista Ibérica. Better known by its initials, the FAI, was a group...
by Scott S. F. Meaker
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014
***This is a short book on the aftermath of the Extraordinary Second World War *** War has a tradition of changing the social and economic map of a country. The concept of family was completely torn apart with the widespread devastation of the Second World War. This book looks at the...
by M.S. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
For 1st and 2nd year undergraduate courses in Modern European History in departments of history. Also, higher level courses on enlightenment.This book provides a wide-ranging account and discussion of the history of Europe from 1713-1789. As well as political events, problems and institutions, it...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1999
In the ancient Greco-Roman world, it was common practice to curse or bind an enemy or rival by writing an incantation on a tablet and dedicating it to a god or spirit. These curses or binding spells, commonly called defixiones were intended to bring other people under the power and control of those...