World History category: 14642 books
The Liberal Arts Tradition
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
Ranging from Plato in antiquity to Martha Nussbaum in the present era, the authors of the seventy readings included in The Liberal Arts Tradition present significant and exemplary views addressing liberal arts education over the course of its history, particularly in the United States. Most of the...
Blood, Iron, and Gold
How the Railways Transformed the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of a transport revolution that would forever transform the way we live. Blood, Iron, and Gold takes us on a journey encompassing jungle, mountain, and desert, revealing the huge impact of the railroads as they spread...
The Dream of Christian Nagasaki
World Trade and the Clash of Cultures, 1560-1640
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Nagasaki, on the west coast of the Japanese island of Kyushu, is known in the West for having been the target of an atomic bomb attack on August 9, 1945. Less well known is that the city was founded by Europeans, Jesuit missionaries who arrived in the area in the second half of the 16th century. The...
История каждой стране по всему миру на русском языке
History of Each Country around the World in Russian
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
История каждой страны во всем мире в цели россиянина это заполнить ваш разум с простого исторического знания с помощью этой книги . Электронная книга является простым...
每個國家的世界各地的普通話中國歷史
History of Each Country around the World in Mandarin Chinese
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
每個國家環遊世界的中國普通話的目標的歷史是填補你的心與這本電子書簡單的歷史知識。該電子書是易於使用，令人耳目一新，並保證精彩！您可以閱讀這本電子書不過去事件的任何先驗知識。這本電子書是一個很好的資源，開始你的一些歷史知識與267個國家和島嶼的組合。其他一些有趣的事情這本電子書會告訴你比國家的背景是其他的名稱，標誌，地理的位置，民族，語言，宗教，人口和地圖。...
Keeb kwm ntawm lub teb chaws Txhua ib ncig ntawm lub ntiaj teb nyob rau hauv Hmoob
History of Each Country around the World in Hmong
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2015
Keeb kwm ntawm lub teb chaws Txhua ncig lub ntiaj teb no nyob rau hauv Hmoob lub hom phiaj yog mus rau nej lub siab nrog tej yam yooj yim txog keeb kwm kev txawj ntse nrog no ebook . Lub ebook yog yooj yim mus use , laj siab thiab yog guaranteed yuav exciting ! Koj yuav nyeem no ebook tsis muaj kev...
ប្រវត្តិសាស្រ្តនៃ ប្រទេស នីមួយ នៅជុំវិញ ពិភពលោក ជាភាសាខ្មែរ
History of Each Country around the World in Khmer
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2015
ប្រវត្តិសាស្រ្តនៃ ប្រទេស នីមួយ នៅជុំវិញពិភពលោកក្នុង គោលដៅ ខ្មែរ គឺ ដើម្បីបំពេញ ចិត្ត របស់អ្នកជាមួយ ចំណេះដឹង...
by Anne Trubek
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
"Persuasively argues that our fixation with writing by hand is driven more by emotion than evidence, as it is perceived to be inextricably linked to our history, core values and individual identities."--Los Angeles Times
The future of handwriting is anything but certain. Its history,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
While the British were able to accomplish abolition in the trans-Atlantic world by the end of the nineteenth century, their efforts paradoxically caused a great increase in legal and illegal slave trading in the western Indian Ocean. Bringing together essays from leading authorities in the field of slavery...
by Rudolf Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
In the best tradition of ancient wisdom literature, Cosmic Memory reconstructs, from the akashic record, events that span the time between the origin of the Earth and the beginning of recorded history. This spiritual research includes a profound investigation of the origins, achievements, and fate of...
Three Nights In Havana
Pierre Trudeau, Fidel Castro, and the Cold War World
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
On January 26, 1976, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau became the first leader of a NATO country to visit Cuba since the crippling 1960 American economic embargo. Accompanied by his wife, Margaret, and baby Michel, Trudeau was greeted in Havana by 250,000 cheering Cubans and a 30-foot poster of himself....
Global Crisis
War, Climate and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses—the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and extent. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan, from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan...
by Bruce Alpine
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
A History Of Life On Earth, is a guided tour from the beginning of time until modern times. Taking the reader from the origins of everything, without which life on Earth would not be possible. To the origins of life, through the different Eons and Geological Periods, explaining the diversifications...
by Bill Nye
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished, and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs. ...