World History category: 14642 books
When Histories Collide
The Development and Impact of Individualistic Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2001
The late economic historian, Raymond Crotty, a specialist on economic development in Ireland, left a challenging work that addresses the processes of world history from the neolithic revoution up to the end of the 20th century. On the way, Crotty tried to explain phenomena as diverse as the role of...
Flying Cars, Zombie Dogs, and Robot Overlords
How World's Fairs and Trade Expos Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Every time you chew a stick of Juicy Fruit, eat a hamburger, slip on a nylon, plug your phone into a wall socket, flick on a TV, withdraw money from an ATM, lick an ice-cream cone, switch on a computer, ride an escalator, play a DVR, watch a movie about dinosaurs, or pop a tranquilizer, you’re doing...
Crossing Boundaries
Ethnicity, Race, and National Belonging in a Transnational World
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Crossing Boundaries: Ethnicity, Race, and National Belonging in a Transnational World, edited by Brian D. Behnken and Simon Wendt, explores ethnic and racial nationalism within a transnational and transcultural framework in the long twentieth-century (late nineteenth to early twenty-first century)....
Secrets of Warfare
Exposing the Myths and Hidden History of Weapons and Battles
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
You’ve already heard about the first Civil War battle between the ironclad warships the Monitor and the Merrimac, and about why Custer’s last stand was, well, his last, but have you heard about the incredibly fast and maneuverable airship Dr. Solomon Andrews, which was offered to the government...
Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled
A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian and His Conflicted Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Born into a low-level literati family in the port city of Ningbo, the seventeenth-century Chinese Christian convert Zhu Zongyuan likely never left his home province. Yet Zhu nonetheless led a remarkably globally connected life. His relations with the outside world, ranging from scholarly activities...
Aerial Aftermaths
Wartime from Above
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
From the first vistas provided by flight in balloons in the eighteenth century to the most recent sensing operations performed by military drones, the history of aerial imagery has marked the transformation of how people perceived their world, better understood their past, and imagined their future....
by Arthur Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2016
The division of history into periods may be very misleading if its true purport be not understood. One age can no more be isolated from the universal course of history than one generation from another. The ideas, the principles, the aims of man change indeed, but change slowly, and in their very change...
World War 2 Submarines: World War 2 Submarine Stories And Accounts: The True Stories Of Battle Under The Dark Seas
World War 2 Submarines, #2
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Human ingenuity has ensured that over the centuries, we have progressed enough to walk on the very moon. Submarine technology, then, comes as no surprise to us. The use of subs during the wars certainly turned the tide of the battle; the Allied Powers would no doubt have lost had they not engaged...
by Steven Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
This wide-ranging study of the Pacific Islands provides a dynamic and provocative account of the peopling of the Pacific, and its broad impact on world history. Spanning over 50,000 years of human presence in an area which comprises one-third of our planet – Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia –...
The Hinge Factor
How Chance and Stupidity Have Changed History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
An award-winning war correspondent delves into history’s major conflicts and reveals how—in war—the improbable and inconceivable can determine events.
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...
by Gregory A. Barton
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Organic farming is a major global movement that is changing land-use and consumer habits around the world. This book tells the untold story of how the organic farming movement nearly faltered after an initial flurry of scientific interest and popular support. Drawing on newly-unearthed archives, Barton...
by Alan T. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Taking a comparative approach, Alan T. Wood traces the evolution of democracy from its origins in prehistoric times and describes democratic growth in thirteen Asian countries from Japan in East Asia to Pakistan in South Asia and examines key issues such as:
* How does the democratic experience...
Cod Fisheries
The History of an International Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
The Cod Fisheries, originally published in 1938 and revised and reissued in 1954, presented a new interpretation of European and North American history that has since become a classic. With that rare skill he possessed of weaving together the various strands of a complex and difficult historical situation,...
Globalization in Prehistory
Contact, Exchange, and the 'People Without History'
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Globalization in Prehistory challenges traditional historical and archaeological discourse about the drivers of social and cultural connectivity in the ancient world. It presents archaeological case studies of emerging globalization from around the word, from the Mesolithic period, through the Bronze...