World History category: 14642 books
by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 1995
"A fascinating history of…[a craft] that preceded and made possible civilization itself." —New York Times Book Review
New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies.
Twenty thousand years ago, women were making and...
Longman Companion to the First World War
Europe 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This new Companion covers one of the most devastating conflicts in modern history. The Great War traumatised a generation and shaped the whole of the twentieth century. Speaking as loudly as any first-hand account, the facts and figures laid out in this volume reveal the sheer massive destruction...
Sky Blue Stone
The Turquoise Trade in World History
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
This book traces the journeys of a stone across the world. From its remote point of origin in the city of Nishapur in eastern Iran, turquoise was traded through India, Central Asia, and the Near East, becoming an object of imperial exchange between the Safavid, Mughal, and Ottoman empires. Along this...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
This book builds upon research on the role of Catholicism in creating and strengthening a global Irish identity, complementing existing scholarship by adding a ‘Roman perspective’. It assesses the direct agency of the Holy See, its role in the Irish collective imagination, and the extent and limitations...
by Edward L Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This book applies the presently accepted scientific facts of Cosmology, Dendrochronology, Documented Catastrophes, Historical Mideastern documentation, along with Evolution theories and Bible text along with relatively new Bible Codes and Genetic theory. It includes Isaac Newton's analysis of the book...
by Daniel Defoe
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
The Political History of the Devil is a 1726 book by Daniel Defoe. General scholarly opinion is that Defoe really did think of the Devil as a participant in world history. He spends some time discussing Milton's Paradise Lost and explaining why he considers it inaccurate. His view is on 18th-century...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2019
This book is the first to trace the unique monetary history of the Indian Ocean World. Long-distance trade across the region was facilitated by a highly complex multi-currency system undergirded by shared ideas that transcended ethno-linguistic, religious and class divisions. Currencies also occupied...
The Antarctic Exploration Anthology
The Personal Accounts of the Great Antarctic Explorers
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2013
The frozen continent of Antarctica has always captured the imagination of explorers and adventurers from around the World, most especially in the first few decades of the 20th Century, when the race was on to be the very first person to reach the South Pole. In this carefully selected Anthology we...
Cotton
The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2006
In the tradition of Mark Kurlansky's Cod and Salt, this endlessly revealing book reminds us that the fiber we think of as ordinary is the world's most powerful cash crop, and that it has shaped the destiny of nations. Ranging from its domestication 5,500 years ago to its influence in creating Calvin...
Render Unto Rome
The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
AN INVESTIGATION OF EPIC FINANCIAL INTRIGUE, RENDER UNTO ROME EXPOSES THE SECRECY AND DECEIT THAT RUN COUNTER TO THE VALUES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
The Sunday collection in every Catholic church throughout the world is as familiar a part of the Mass as the homily and even Communion. There is...
The Oil and the Glory
The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
Remote, forbidding, and volatile, the Caspian Sea long tantalized the world with its vast oil reserves. But outsiders, blocked by the closed Soviet system, couldn’t get to it. Then the Soviet Union collapsed, and a wholesale rush into the region erupted. Along with oilmen, representatives of the...
The Lessons of Tragedy
Statecraft and World Order
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
The ancient Greeks hard†‘wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought to create a communal sense of responsibility and courage—to spur citizens and their leaders to take...
The Secret Library
A Book-Lovers' Journey Through Curiosities of History
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
A fascinating tour through the curious history of Western civilization told through its most emblematic invention – the book. As well as leafing through the well-known titles that have helped shape the world in which we live, Oliver Tearle also dusts off some of the more neglected items to be found...
Upheaval
Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
A Bill Gates Summer Reading Pick
A "riveting and illuminating" (Yuval Noah Harari) new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse.
In his international...