World History category: 14642 books
by Peter Brimacombe
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Elizabeth I was the last English monarch truly to rule the nation; she inherited a weak and divided kingdom yet relentlessly fashioned it into a major world power, and decisively defeated the mightiest invasion fleet ever to approach our shores. Her relationships with the key men in the kingdom were...
Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World
Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
This book argues that Angola and Brazil were connected, not separated, by the Atlantic Ocean. Roquinaldo Ferreira focuses on the cultural, religious and social impacts of the slave trade on Angola. Reconstructing biographies of Africans and merchants, he demonstrates how cross-cultural trade, identity...
by Stephen Hopgood
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
"We are living through the endtimes of the civilizing mission. The ineffectual International Criminal Court and its disastrous first prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, along with the failure in Syria of the Responsibility to Protect are the latest pieces of evidence not of transient misfortunes but of...
Roaring Boys
Shakespeare's Rat Pack
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
In the late 1580s a new kind of entertainment flowered in London: professional theatre, with its custom built playhouses, professional companies, incredible staging and, last but not least, the new writers, poets, playwrights - the roaring boys. To ambitious young writers, London was a magnet offering...
Reframing the Past
History, Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Reframing the Past traces what historians have written about film and television from 1898 until the early 2000s. Mia Treacey argues that historical engagement with film and television should be reconceptualised as Screened History: an interdisciplinary, international field of research to incorporate...
The Greeks Who Made Us Who We Are
Eighteen Ancient Philosophers, Scientists, Poets and Others
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Hellenic contributions to Western Civilization are acknowledged by all, but the details of their endowment are under-appreciated. This volume seeks to disclose two distinctive features of Western culture uniquely attributable to the ancient Greeks: A human-centered worldview that elevated humans to...
The Case for Goliath
How America Acts as the World's Government in the
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
How does the United States use its enormous power in the world? In The Case for Goliath, Michael Mandelbaum offers a surprising answer: The United States furnishes to other countries the services that governments provide within the countries they govern.
Mandelbaum explains how this role came...
Protestants Abroad
How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
They sought to transform the world, and ended up transforming twentieth-century America
Between the 1890s and the Vietnam era, many thousands of American Protestant missionaries were sent to live throughout the non-European world. They expected to change the people they encountered, but those...
To the Ends of the Earth
Scotland's Diaspora, 1750-2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
The Scots are one of the world's greatest nations of emigrants. For centuries, untold numbers of men, women, and children have sought their fortunes in every conceivable walk of life and in every imaginable climate. All over the British Empire, the United States, and elsewhere, the Scottish contribution...
Voodoo Killers
Slavery, Sorecery and the Supernatural
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 John Farndon
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
Where would humanity be now without fire, vaccinations, farming … or wine? A great idea is one that has changed the path of human civilisation. But which is the greatest of them all? John Farndon, author of the bestselling Do You Think You’re Clever?, has set out to find the answer. A distinguished...
Dambusters
A Landmark Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009
On the night of 16-17 May 1943, nineteen Lancaster bombers from 617 Squadron headed for Germany. Their mission, for which they had been trained under a cloak of absolute secrecy, was to destroy the dams of the Ruhr Valley and in doing so cripple the Nazi industrial war effort. It was to become one...
Bringing the World into Focus
The Story of Vosh (Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity)
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
This is a story of struggle and triumph as visionaries overcome barriers to bring sight to others who cannot see. The joys and tears of volunteers are shared in stories of what drives their passions toward a life-changing causegiving the gift of sight. Bringing the World into Focus is about Volunteer...
Remembering Mass Violence
Oral History, New Media and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Remembering Mass Violence breaks new ground in oral history, new media, and performance studies by exploring what is at stake when we attempt to represent war, genocide, and other violations of human rights in a variety of creative works. A model of community-university collaboration, it includes...