World History category: 14642 books
Socialist Internationalism in the Cold War
Exploring the Second World
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
This volume examines how numerous international transfers, circulations, and exchanges shaped the world of socialism during the Cold War. Over the course of half a century, the Soviets shaped politics, values and material culture throughout the vast space of Eurasia, and foreign forces in turn often...
Warrior Kings of Sweden
The Rise of an Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
For a hundred years, Sweden was the international military power of Northern Europe, in control of the entire Baltic region and among the first to colonize in Africa and America. But the history of Sweden, Finland, the Baltic States, Poland, and Prussia is largely neglected in American classrooms...
by Hew Strachan
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
To Arms is Hew Strachan's most complete and definitive study of the opening of the First World War. Now, key sections from this magisterial work are published as individual paperbacks, each complete in itself, and with a new introduction by the author. The First World War was not just fought in the...
1914: These Are Our Masters
The First World War Day-By-Day, #1
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
This is the First World War from a brand-new angle, as you've never seen it before.
As Europe tumbles into war, dragging the rest of the world with it, follow the decisions, the debates, and the deaths day-by-day, as they happened. From the debates at General Headquarters as the chaps in...
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
The second half of the nineteenth century marks a watershed in human history. Railroads linked remote hinterlands with cities; overland and undersea cables connected distant continents. New and accessible print technologies made the wide dissemination of ideas possible; oceangoing steamers carried...
Connecting Continents
Archaeology and History in the Indian Ocean World
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
In recent decades, the vast and culturally diverse Indian Ocean region has increasingly attracted the attention of anthropologists, historians, political scientists, sociologists, and other researchers. Largely missing from this growing body of scholarship, however, are significant contributions by...
Labor on the Fringes of Empire
Voice, Exit and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
After the abolition of slavery in the Indian Ocean and Africa, the world of labor remained unequal, exploitative, and violent, straddling a fine line between freedom and unfreedom. This book explains why. Unseating the Atlantic paradigm of bondage and drawing from a rich array of colonial, estate,...
The Final World Government
Unveiling the Coming One Global System of Administration, One Currency, One Language and One People Under One Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
This book is the last title of the seven holy book series written simultaneously in thirty-four months by a born prophet, seasoned and reputable spiritual scientist and consultant on issues related to nature and the universe at large, His Lordship Bishop Bassey Effiong Orok. After his consecration...
Deadly Baggage
What Cortes Brought to Mexico and How It Destroyed the Aztec Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
In 1519, a few hundred Europeans led by Hernán Cortés sailed from Cuba to the Mexican mainland, where they encountered representatives of the Aztec Empire. Their Iberian history, culture and religion, and their experience in the Greater Antilles made conquest and riches the aim of these adventurers....
The Fateful Year
England 1914
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
The Fateful Year by Mark Bostridge is the story of England in 1914. War with Germany, so often imagined and predicted, finally broke out when people were least prepared for it.
Here, among a crowded cast of unforgettable characters, are suffragettes, armed with axes, destroying works of art,...
Dance in Chains
Political Imprisonment in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
States around the world imprison people for their beliefs or politically-motivated actions. Oppositional movements of all stripes celebrate their comrades behind bars. Yet they are more than symbols of repression and human rights. Dance in Chains examines the experiences of political prisoners themselves...
by G. Barton
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Informal empire is a key mechanism of control that explains much of the configuration of the modern world. This book traces the broad outline of westernization through elite formations around the world in the modern era. It explains why the world is western and how formal empire describes only the tip of the iceberg of British and American power.
Channelling Mobilities
Migration and Globalisation in the Suez Canal Region and Beyond, 1869–1914
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The history of globalisation is usually told as a history of shortening distances and acceleration of the flows of people, goods and ideas. Channelling Mobilities refines this picture by looking at a wide variety of mobile people passing through the region of the Suez Canal, a global shortcut opened...
Latin American Unification
A History of Political and Economic Integration Efforts
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
This book investigates efforts to promote the political and economic unification of Latin America. Every generation in the region has known some effort toward these goals. There were four major stages. The first endeavors were undertaken by diplomats, the second by idealists, the third by technocrats...