World History category: 14642 books
Red Round Globe Hot Burning
A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
On February 21, 1803, Colonel Edward (Ned) Marcus Despard was publicly hanged and decapitated in London before a crowd of 20,000 for organizing a revolutionary conspiracy to overthrow King George III. His black Caribbean wife, Catherine (Kate), helped to write his gallows speech in which he proclaimed...
Absolute Monarchs
A History of the Papacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In a chronicle that captures nearly two thousand years of inspiration and intrigue, John Julius Norwich recounts in riveting detail the histories of the most significant popes and what they meant politically, culturally, and socially to Rome and to the world. Norwich...
by Robert Wernick
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2019
In the eighth century, The Vikings, the water-borne warriors of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, conquered much of the British Isles. They pillaged the coast of France, pushed inland to sack Paris, and seized Normandy. Sweeping south down the great rivers of central Europe, they overwhelmed the Slavs...
Spies, Sadists and Sorcerers
The history you weren't taught in school
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Spies, Sadists and Sorcerers unveils the history you were never taught at school. With a breath-taking sweep spanning Rome to the modern day, popular historian and author Dominic Selwood challenges the traditional version of some of the best-known events of the past. From ancient Christianity to the...
Jewels
A Secret History
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Throughout history, precious stones have inspired passions and poetry, quests and curses, sacred writings and unsacred actions. In this scintillating book, journalist Victoria Finlay embarks on her own globe-circling search for the real stories behind some of the gems we prize most. Blending adventure...
The Origins of Political Order
From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title
Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could...
Liberal Fascism
The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
“Fascists,” “Brownshirts,” “jackbooted stormtroopers”—such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale. But who are the real fascists in our...
by Lora Greene, HistoryCaps
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Bands from Jimmy Eat World to Green Day have one thing in common--they would be nothing without punk.
This book explores punks earliest roots and takes the reader all the way to the present--from Second Wave and New Wave to Oi! and Punk, it's all here. Along the way, you will read all about...
Famous Trials
Cases that made history
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
To amend Clausewitz on war, one might say that the trial in a courtroom is the pursuit of battle by other means. And, short of the horror on the battlefield, to be on trial is perhaps the most traumatic of all life experiences. Yet in the great trials of history much more than individual destinies...
Bible and Sword
England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
From Barbara W. Tuchman, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August, comes history through a wide-angle lens: a fascinating chronicle of Britain’s long relationship with Palestine and the Middle East, from the ancient world to the twentieth century.
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Historically, the British were...
Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World
When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft -- a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an intercontinental bomber that could be thrown about the sky like...
1941
The America That Went to War
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
A detailed, panoramic portrait of America and its people in the twelve months leading up to its entry into WWII.
From Joe DiMaggio’s still unbroken hitting streak to the infamy of Pearl Harbor, 1941: The America That Went to War immerses readers in a world of big bands and bigger headlines.
The...
You Are One-Third Daffodil
And Other Facts to Amaze, Amuse, and Astound
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Did you know that most toilets flush in E-flat? Or that American Airlines once saved $40,000 by removing a single olive from each salad served in first class? Well, now you will with this clever, fun, and occasionally shocking compendium of facts from around the world.
Organized into witty...
by Alice Morse Earle
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The seventeenth-century colonies established along the northeast coast of North America served as the intersection between the Old World and the New World, and the culture that took hold there -- inspired by Europe, but with its own unique flavor -- would play an enormous role in setting the course of...