World History category: 14642 books
by John McCannon Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Barron’s AP World History provides in-depth review and practice to help students prepare for the exam. This edition is aligned with the current learning objectives and themes required by the College Board and includes the revised Short-Response, Data-Base, and Long Essay questions.
This edition...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Divided into two books, Volume 6 of the Cambridge World History series considers these critical transformations. The first book examines the material...
World History
Journeys from Past to Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
World History: Journeys from Past to Present uses common themes to present an integrated and comprehensive survey of human history from its origins to the present day. By weaving together thematic and regional perspectives in coherent chronological narratives, Goucher and Walton transform the overwhelming...
The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
By the end of the nineteenth century, the world was ready to adopt the gold standard out of concerns of national power, prestige, and anti-English competition. Yet although the gold standard allowed countries to enact a virtual single world currency, the years before World War I were not a time of...
Drink
A Cultural History of Alcohol
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
A spirited look at the history of alcohol, from the dawn of civilization to the modern day
Alcohol is a fundamental part of Western culture. We have been drinking as long as we have been human, and for better or worse, alcohol has shaped our civilization. Drink investigates the history of this...
Encyclopedia of Days
Start the Day with History
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
Encyclopedia of Days uses daily events as a lens through which to view the broad panorama of history. Includes over six thousand entries for every day of the year, designed to both fascinate and educate.
Within its pages, you can learn that that Bjarni Herjulfson was the first European "discoverer"...
by Tao Wang
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2003
History is the tale of humanity from the initial use of writing to modern times. It is the story of both the wondrous achievements and the worst failures of the human race. History of the World discusses the important events and peoples throughout time. The book examines dozens of the greatest civilizations...
War
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
War is now generally regarded as organised conflict waged by armed forces, with superior weaponry usually seen as the main reason why one side prevailed. This emphasis on the material culture of war is not confined to modern times but reaches as far back as the Bronze and Iron Ages, where the superior...
Thugs
How History's Most Notorious Despots Transformed the World through Terror, Tyranny, and Mass Murder
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2007
For the most notorious leaders in the history of the world, evil is more than just a moment of weakness?it's a way of life.
For every noble king, righteous emperor, and peace-loving president, history seems to serve up a double portion of murderous pharaohs, deranged dictators, or corrupt czars....
The Atlantic World
Europeans, Africans, Indians and their Shared History, 1400–1900
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
From 1400 to 1900 the Atlantic Ocean served as a major highway, allowing people and goods to move easily between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. These interactions and exchanges transformed European, African, and American societies and led to the creation of new peoples, cultures, economies, and...
by Lenny Flank
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
The history and science behind some of the most interesting and famous museum exhibits in the world, from the Smithsonian, the London Natural History Museum, the Chicago Field Museum, the LaBrea Tar Pits, the Oslo Viking Ship Museum, the Independence Mall Museum, the American Museum of Natural History;...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
All across the humanities fields there is a new interest in materials and materiality. This is the first book to capture and study the “material turn” in the humanities from all its varied perspectives. Cultural Histories of the Material World brings together top scholars from all these different...
by Carol A. Wirth
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
A Book for the Curious,
Amateur and Serious Genealogists
Do you Want To Know
More About the Past?
If you enjoy history or genealogy, there are many topics to explore in this first of a six volume series, THE WORLD OF YOUR ANCESTORS - DATES - IN THE BEGINNING. This first...
History's Greatest Wars
The Epic Conflicts that Shaped the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Centuries of warfare that changed the world are captured in History’s Greatest Wars. This book acts as a perfect primer for novices while offering seasoned history readers new perspectives on many famous and some not-so-well-known conflicts. Each chapter includes a quick-reference summary, a timeline,...