World History category: 14642 books
The Faith
A History of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Beginning with the birth of Jesus and tracing the religion established by his followers up to the present day, The Faith is a comprehensive exploration of the history of Christianity. Judiciously covering all the signal moments without bogging down in minutia, author Brian Moynahan's superbly written...
Islam and the West
A Dissonant Harmony of Civilisations
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
We have rapidly grown used to the idea, particularly since the declaration of a world-wide war on terrorism, that between Islam and the West there exists a deep historical and ideological gulf. Christopher Walker's book turns such accepted views on their head and paints instead a picture of two belief systems which have a history of toleration.
Monarchy
The History of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
The most remarkable feat of monarchy is to have survived into the 21st century, frequently challenged but still strong. It has persisted even though the hereditary principle has frequently meant that a reigning king or queen was not suited to the role, whatever their birthright. How was monarchy come...
Tried by Fire
The Story of Christianity's First Thousand Years
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Full of larger-than-life characters, stunning acts of bravery, and heart-rending sacrifice, Tried by Fire narrates the rise and expansion of Christianity from an obscure regional sect to the established faith of the world’s greatest empire with influence extending from India to Ireland, Scandinavia...
How Christianity Made The Modern World - The Legacy of Christian Liberty
How the Bible Inspired Freedom, Shaped Western Civilization, Revolutionized Human Rights, Transformed Democracy and Why Free People Owe So Much to their Christian Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
How Christianity Made The Modern World - The Legacy of Christian Liberty: How the Bible Inspired Freedom, Shaped Western Civilization, Revolutionized Human Rights, Transformed Democracy and Why Free People Owe So Much to their Christian Heritage.
What has Christianity ever done for the world?...
by Richard Braden
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2017
This humorous, opinionated history of the Western world covers over 4000 years of human progress from 2000 BC to the present day (2017). Take a crash course in the people and events that shaped our cultures and civilizations.
In the author’s own words, “You can read this book as you travel...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Based on the most recent scholarship, this book provides students and interested lay readers with a basic introduction to key facts and current controversies concerning the Enlightenment.
• Provides the Enlightenment in various formats, thereby enabling students to better understand and fully...
Owain Glyndŵr - The Story of the Last Prince of Wales
The Story of the Last Prince of Wales
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
If it had not been for Owain Glyndŵrs 15-year struggle against overwhelming odds, the Welsh would not have survived as Europes oldest nation. His war is the defining era in the history of Wales.
Yet Glyndŵr is hardly known a cultured, literate warrior who was never betrayed or captured and...
by George Gustav
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
The brutal murder of the Russian Imperial family on the night of July 16–17, 1918 has long been a defining moment in world history. This book gives a riveting day-by-day account of the last fourteen days of their lives, as the conspiracy to kill them unfolded. In the vivid style of a TV documentary,...
The Gladiator
The Secret History Of Rome's Warrior Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
Condemned and yet feared by emperors, almost certain to be slaughtered and yet adored by the masses, the gladiator was the superstar of his day. His existence was invariably short and violent, improved only faintly by the prospect of honor, wealth, and public attention. Yet men gave up their freedom...
by Jules Verne
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
The famous writer of great adventure stories Jules Verne wrote also several lesser known, but good non-fiction works. "Celebrated travels and travellers" tells the story of geographical discovery in the same well written and precise manner we are used to finding in Verne’s fiction books....
Leningrad
The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
On September 8, 1941, eleven weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege was not lifted for two and a half years, by which time some three quarters of a million Leningraders had died of starvation.
Anna...
The Last Time Around Cape Horn
The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer Pamir
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
A memorable tale of adventure on the turbulent seas of the Great Southern and Atlantic oceans-on one of the most historic voyages of our time-finds its way into paperback. This is William F. Stark's engrossing memoir of the last leg of the Grain Race, and the Pamir's rounding of fearsome Cape Horn-the...
by U.S. Government
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Every year, the West celebrates Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day or VE Day), commemorated on May 8, 1945 as the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. The formal surrender of the occupying...