World History category: 14642 books
Silver Linings
Overcoming, with optimism - A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
The author, Dr. Jackson, invites you to join him on a trip back through time, experience different cultures, and visit different places and countries. This journey may cause laughter, or may trigger an unanticipated emotion. It is the author's belief that the twenty-one four-page stories will be...
by A. Monroe Aurand
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Early Life Of The Pennsylvania Germans by A. Monroe Aurand
THE HISTORY OF THE PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS is a most interesting subject. It began more than three hundred years ago, and the end is not in sight. One of many things to be remembered about the people called Pennsylvania Germans (or Dutch),...
by B. W. Higman
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
A Concise History of the Caribbean presents a general history of the Caribbean islands from the beginning of human settlement about seven thousand years ago to the present. It narrates processes of early human migration, the disastrous consequences of European colonization, the development of slavery...
The Hero
A Study in Tradition, Myth and Drama
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
His mother is a virgin and he's reputed to be the son of a god; he loses favor and is driven from his kingdom to a sorrowful death — sound familiar? In The Hero, Lord Raglan contends that the heroic figures from myth and legend are invested with a common pattern that satisfies the human desire for...
The Ambassadors
From Ancient Greece to Renaissance Europe, the Men Who Introduced the World to Itself
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2006
From the author of Heretics comes this “informative and enjoyable glimpse at the travails and achievements of emissaries over thousands of years” (Booklist).
We think of ambassadors as simply diplomats—but once they were adventurers who dared an uncertain fate in unknown lands, bringing gifts...
My Day
The Best Of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
"I think Eleanor Roosevelt has so gripped the imagination of this moment because we need her and her vision so completely. . . . She's perfect for us as we enter the twenty-first century. Eleanor Roosevelt is a loud and profound voice for people who want to change the world."--Blanche Wiesen...
Farewell, Titanic
Her Final Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
On the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking, a prominent Titanic researcher offers a final chance to see the ship before it disappears forever
The Titanic was the biggest, most luxurious passenger ship the world had ever seen; the ads proclaimed it to be unsinkable. When it sank in April...
by Jacob Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014
Now it was on this flat plain, between the uplands of the two rivers and the sea, that the cradle of mankind was first rocked, and that the infant human race first opened its eyes and began to see what a wonderful place this world might be. Later, the uplands lying further up the rivers became important...
Crete 1941
The Battle and the Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
The bestselling author of The Battle of Arnhem and D-Day vividly reconstructs the epic WWII struggle for Crete – reissued with a new introduction
Nazi Germany expected its airborne attack on Crete in 1941 to be a textbook victory based on tactical surprise. Little did they know that the British,...
What If?
The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
With its in-depth reflections on the monumental events of the past, this amazing book of essays ponders what might have been if things had gone differently in history. Featuring Stephen J. Ambrose, John Keegan, and many others.
The Viking Anthology
Norse Myths, Icelandic Sagas and Viking Chronicles
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
This vast ebook Anthology is exploding with masterpieces of world literature, ranging from the peerless Icelandic Sagas, to the Norwegian 'Heimskringla', or the 'Chronicle of the Kings of Norway'. As well as these original texts (in English Translation), are several accompanying great works of scholarship...
by Joseph Poprzeczny
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
Odilo Globocnik, a collaborator of Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler, was responsible for the deaths of at least 1.5 million people in three Nazi camps in occupied Poland: Treblinka, Sobibor, and Belzec. Along with Rudolf Höss, Globocnik may be named as one of the first industrial-style killers in...
by David Eveleigh
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
What were early kitchens like? How have they evolved over time? What factors have influenced their design? David Eveleigh takes you into the heart of the home and shows us why modern kitchens are the way they are. Everything you could wish to know about kitchens and their unusual history will be found with these pages.
Dominion of Memories
Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline of Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2007
For decades, the Commonwealth of Virginia led the nation. The premier state in population, size, and wealth, it produced a galaxy of leaders: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Mason, Marshall. Four of the first five presidents were Virginians. And yet by the middle of the nineteenth century,...