World History category: 14642 books
Samurai Assassins
"Dark Murder" and the Meiji Restoration, 1853-1868
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Assassination—in Japanese, ansatsu or “dark murder”—was instrumental in the samurai-led revolution known as the Meiji Restoration, by which the shogun’s military government was overthrown and the Imperial monarchy restored in 1868. The ideology and moral philosophy of the men behind the...
Aftermath: The Remnants of War
From Landmines to Chemical Warfare--The Devastating Effects of Modern Combat
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
In riveting and revelatory detail, Aftermath documents the ways in which wars have transformed the terrain of the battlefield into landscapes of memory and enduring terror: in France, where millions of acres of farmland are cordoned off to all but a corps of demolition experts responsible for the...
by Bill Schwarz
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
The Memories of Empire trilogy explores the complex and subterranean political currents that emerged in English society during the years of post-war decolonization. Just as the empire ended, when white princesses waltzed with new black heads of state in celebration of independence from colonial rule,...
The Black Prince And The Sea Devils
The Story Of Valerio Borghese And The Elite Units Of The Decima Mas
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
At the beginning of World War II, Prince Junio Valerio Borghese, dashing Italian nobleman, assembled the famous Decima MAS naval unit-the first modern naval commando squad. Borghese's "frogmen" were trained to fight undercover and underwater with small submarines and assault boats armed...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Now in a revised and updated edition with added original chapters, this acclaimed book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the complex links between revolutionary struggles and human rights discourses and practices. Covering events as far removed from one another in time and space as the...
Man's Horizons
A Universal Perspective on Mankind through the Ages
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The Book - Man’s Horizons - takes you on an enlightening journey of discovery that begins with the awe-inspiring cosmic explosion of the Big Bang and continues through to the Universe’s last gasp at the end of time. See how the story of Mankind is intricately interwoven into this vast cosmic backdrop.
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by Philip Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
In 1948 the United Nations passed the Genocide Convention. The international community was now obligated to prevent or halt what had hitherto, in Winston Churchill’s words, been a "crime without a name", and to punish the perpetrators. Since then, however, genocide has recurred repeatedly....
The History of Human Rights
From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2008
Micheline Ishay recounts the dramatic struggle for human rights across the ages in a book that brilliantly synthesizes historical and intellectual developments from the Mesopotamian Codes of Hammurabi to today's era of globalization. As she chronicles the clash of social movements, ideas, and armies...
by Dr Eileen Ka-May Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
"What is historiography?" asked the American historian Carl Becker in 1938. Professional historians continue to argue over the meaning of the term. This book challenges the view of historiography as an esoteric subject by presenting an accessible and concise overview of the history of historical...
The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939
Reissued with a new preface from Michael Cox
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
E.H. Carr's Twenty Years' Crisis is a classic work in International Relations. Published in 1939, on the eve of World War II, it was immediately recognized by friend and foe alike as a defining work in the fledgling discipline. The author was one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals...
The Global 1920s
Politics, economics and society
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
The 1920s is often recognised as a decade of fascism, flappers and film. Covering the political, economic and social developments of the 1920s throughout the world, The Global 1920s takes an international and cross-cultural perspective on the critical changes and conditions that prevailed from roughly...
by William Le Queux
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
William Le Queux was an Anglo-French journalist and author. Le Queux wrote bestsellers in many genres including mysteries and historical thrillers around the time of World War I. This edition of German Atrocities includes a table of contents.
by Elizabeth Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Babbitts and Bohemians is a fresh and informed account of the 1920s, a decade that seems almost mythical to some. Elizabeth Stevenson finds that the true twenties was a society of contrast. On the one hand, it was an era of sameness and political conformity, but on the other hand, it was also a time...
The Green Line Runner
A Novel of Cyprus
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2017
Cyprus. 1979. One island, divided by the notorious Green Line. Greeks on one side, Turks on the other. To cross the Green Line means death and 342 men have found that out. John Reid, who grew up in Cyprus, is the first to cross the Green Line, and not once but several times. Certain Greek millionaires...