World History category: 14642 books
Internationalism, Imperialism and the Formation of the Contemporary World
The Pasts of the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This volume offers innovative insights into and approaches to the multiple historical intersections between distinct modalities of internationalism and imperialism during the twentieth century, across a range of contexts. Bringing together scholars from diverse theoretical, methodological and geographical...
Making a New World
Founding Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Making a New World is a major rethinking of the role of the Americas in early world trade, the rise of capitalism, and the conflicts that reconfigured global power around 1800. At its center is the Bajío, a fertile basin extending across the modern-day Mexican states of Guanajuato and Querétaro,...
Unconscious Dominions
Psychoanalysis, Colonial Trauma, and Global Sovereignties
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
By the 1920s, psychoanalysis was a technology of both the late-colonial state and anti-imperialism. Insights from psychoanalysis shaped European and North American ideas about the colonial world and the character and potential of native cultures. Psychoanalytic discourse, from Freud’s description...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
In any conflict, there are moments, particularly in retrospect, that take on significance. These are the times when things might have gone otherwise and the fact that they didn’t turns out to be supremely important. In the massive, unforgettable, profoundly significant clash of freedom versus fascism...
by Frank Jacob
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
The Russo-Japanese War was in essence a colonial conflict between the expanding interests of Russia and Japan in East Asia. However, while appearing regional, the war itself in fact had a major global impact. The conflict and Japanese victory stimulated the Russian revolutionary movement in 1905 and...
The Man Who Walked Backward
An American Dreamer's Search for Meaning in the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
From Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery, the story of a Texas man who, during the Great Depression, walked around the world -- backwards.
Like most Americans at the time, Plennie Wingo was hit hard by the effects of the Great Depression. When the bank foreclosed on his small restaurant...
Humanity, What a Story!
A Compelling Portrait of Our Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
“The world that we leave to our children will depend on the children we leave to our world.” - FEDERICO MAYOR, former President of UnescoStudy of the effect of Man’s activities on the environment is not exclusive to contemporary societies. It has been pondered upon by human minds since thought...
by Richard Fortey
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
A remarkable behind-the-scenes look at the extraordinary people, meticulous research, and driving passions that make London’s Natural History Museum one of the world’s greatest institutions.
In an elegant and illuminating narrative, Richard Fortey takes his readers to a place where only...
Banana
The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2007
A gripping biological detective story that uncovers the myth, mystery, and endangered fate of the world’s most humble fruit
To most people, a banana is a banana: a simple yellow fruit. Americans eat more bananas than apples and oranges combined. In others parts of the world, bananas are what...
Conquest, Tribute and Trade
How the Quest for Precious Metals Gave Birth to Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
This new edition of Conquest, Tribute and Trade: How the Quest for Precious Metals Gave Birth to Globalization (2016) has been revised to improve the clarity of the text, maps and end-notes. The book itself attempts to explain the birth of globalization in a new way and address three interrelated...
D-Day
The Battle for Normandy
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
**"Glorious, horrifying...D-Day is a vibrant work of history that honors the sacrifice of tens of thousands of men and women."—Time
Beevor's Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge is now available from Viking Books**
Renowned historian Antony Beevor, the man who "single-handedly...
The March of Folly
From Troy to Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece The Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the ages, of failure, mismanagement, and delusion in government.
Drawing on a comprehensive array of examples,...
Time Travel
A History
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
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**BOSTON GLOBE * THE ATLANTIC
From the acclaimed bestselling author of The Information and Chaos comes this enthralling history of time travel—a concept that has preoccupied physicists and storytellers over the course of the last century.**
James Gleick delivers...
Red
A History of the Redhead
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
RED is a brilliantly told, captivating history of red hair throughout the ages. A book that breaks new ground, dispels myths, and reinforces the special nature of being a redhead, with a look at multiple disciplines, including science, religion, politics, feminism and sexuality, literature, and art.
With...