World History category: 14642 books
Luxury
A Rich History
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
We live in a world obsessed by luxury. Long-distance airlines compete to offer first-class sleeping experiences and hotels recommend exclusive suites where you are never disturbed. Luxury is a rapidly changing global industry that makes the headlines daily in our newspapers and on the internet. More...
Lies, Half-Truths, and More Lies
The Truth Behind 250 "Facts" You Learned in School (and Elsewhere)
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
History is replete with stories of great people and extraordinary events that either never happened or didn’t happen the way we were told they did. Such news or embellishment thereof are part of what we consider common knowledge – information taught in schools and passed down to us. And they are...
by John Van der Kiste
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
The six children of King George V and Queen Mary all lived to maturity except the youngest, Prince John. The eldest, who was Prince of Wales and heir to the throne, reigned as King Edward VII for less than a year. His infamous romance with Mrs Simpson plunged the country into the abdication crisis...
Prime Minister Boris
And other things that never happened
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
History resting on a hair's breadth … a man dies rather than lives, an election is lost rather than won, one minister is appointed, another dismissed, a coalition is joined, or not. Enter a world of political counterfactuals, twenty-two examinations of things that never happened - but could have....
The Ultimate Book of Impostors
Over 100 True Stories of the Greatest Phonies and Frauds
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Think You Know Who Your Friends Are?
Think again...
From Mata Hari to D. B. Cooper, history is littered with people pretending to be someone else. Some go undetected for years, cultivating their false identities so skillfully, even their spouses don't know. Other frauds go up in flames after...
Snipers and Shooters
The Kill Shot Out of Nowhere
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
The art of murder knows many forms, but few more harrowing than murder for reasons of ritual or the supernatural. Supposedly serving a higher cause, they are often little more than acts of self-gratifying blood-lust. Voodoo Killers chronicles the disturbing history of ritualistic killing around the...
by Rebecca Solnit
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
The incomparable Rebecca Solnit, author of more than a dozen acclaimed, prizewinning books of nonfiction, brings the same dazzling writing to the essays in Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness. As the title suggests, the territory of Solnit’s concerns is vast, and in her signature alchemical style...
A Splendid Exchange
How Trade Shaped the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
A Financial Times and Economist Best Book of the Year exploring world trade from Mesopotamia in 3,000 BC to modern globalization.
How did trade evolve to the point where we don’t think twice about biting into an apple from the other side of the world?
In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein,...
1995
The Year the Future Began
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
A hinge moment in recent American history, 1995 was an exceptional year. Drawing on interviews, oral histories, memoirs, archival collections, and news reports, W. Joseph Campbell presents a vivid, detail-rich portrait of those memorable twelve months. This book offers fresh interpretations of the...
by Edwin S. Grosvenor
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
Some of the world's foremost historians - from Morris Bishop and J. Christopher Herold to H. R. Trevor-Roper and Barbara Tuchman - tell the stories of the greatest showdowns of all time. Here, Richard the Lionheart faces off against the sultan Saladin, Pope Leo I against Attila the Hun, Spanish Explorer...
The Second World War (3)
The war at sea
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
This volume provides a comprehensive guide to three major theatres of combat; the battles for the Atlantic, the war in the Mediterranean and the contest in the Indian Ocean. The war at sea was a vital contest, which if lost would have irreversibly altered the balance of the military forces on land....
Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History
Imperialism, Nation, Race, and Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) first argued that there were continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951). She claimed that theories of race, notions of racial and cultural superiority, and the right of ‘superior races’...
How We Forgot the Cold War
A Historical Journey across America
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Hours after the USSR collapsed in 1991, Congress began making plans to establish the official memory of the Cold War. Conservatives dominated the proceedings, spending millions to portray the conflict as a triumph of good over evil and a defeat of totalitarianism equal in significance to World War...
Alexander's Tomb
The Two-Thousand Year Obsession to Find the Lost Conquerer
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2007
Alexander the Great is a towering figure in world history, but despite our long-held fascination with him, his burial site is unknown. The search for Alexander's tomb began soon after his untimely death in 323 B.C. and continues even today. The epic pursuit of the tomb spans continents and centuries,...