World History category: 14642 books
Access to History for the IB Diploma: The Second World War and the Americas 1933-1945 Second Edition
Access to History for the IB Diploma: The Second World War and the Americas 1933-1945 Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
A new edition for HL Option 2, History of the Americas, Topic 13: The Second World War and the Americas 1933-1945.
The renowned IB Diploma History series, combining compelling narratives with academic rigor.
An authoritative and engaging narrative, with the widest variety of sources at this level,...
Between the Wars
19191939
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
At the end of 1918 one prescient American historian began to write a history of the Great War. "What will you call it?" he was asked. "The First World War," was his bleak response.
In Between the Wars Philip Ziegler examines the major international turning points - cultural...
The Ideas That Conquered The World
Peace, Democracy, And Free Markets In The Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2004
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, three ideas dominate the world: peace as the preferred basis for relations between and among different countries, democracy as the optimal way to organize political life, and free markets as the indispensable vehicle for the creation of wealth. While not practiced...
Empire of Cotton
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.
Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins of modern capitalism....
The First World War: Volume I: To Arms
Volume I: To Arms
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2001
This is the first truly definitive history of the First World War, the war that has done most to shape the twentieth century. The first generation of its historians had access to only a limited range of sources, and their focus was primarily on military events. More recent approaches have embraced...
by Rossiter Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
The Great Events of World History, Volume 11! Featuring: HENRY HUDSON EXPLORES THE HUDSON RIVER, by Henry Cleveland GALILEO OVERTHROWS ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY, by Oliver Lodge BEGINNING OF BRITISH POWER IN INDIA, by Beckles Willson DUTCH SETTLEMENT OF NEW YORK, by David Valentine HARVEY DISCOVERS THE CIRCULATION...
Why the West Rules--for Now
The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West's rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the...
by David Christian
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
A great historian can make clear the connections between the first Homo sapiens and todays version of the species, and a great storyteller can make those connections come alive. David Christian is both, and This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity makes the journeyfrom the earliest foraging era...
Capitalism
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
In this authoritative and accessible book, one of the world's most renowned historians provides a concise and comprehensive history of capitalism within a global perspective from its medieval origins to the 2008 financial crisis and beyond. From early commercial capitalism in the Arab world, China,...
The Modern World-System IV
Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789–1914
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth...
A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
A new edition of the bestselling comprehensive radical history of the planet
In this monumental book, Chris Harman achieves the impossible—a gripping history of the planet from the perspective of struggling peoples throughout the ages.
From the earliest human societies to the Holy...
The Colonizer's Model of the World
Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
This influential book challenges one of the most pervasive and powerful beliefs of our time--that Europe rose to modernity and world dominance due to unique qualities of race, environment, culture, mind, or spirit, and that progress for the rest of the world resulted from the diffusion of European...
by Tom Hidell
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
For over 200 years, Illuminati dynasties of the Old World Order have worked towards establishing a new world order… Their New World Order.The New World Order is the most ambitious and devious plan ever conceived. Its numerous aspects, both overt and covert, span multiple generations. The...
The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World
From Marathon to Waterloo
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Ranging from Marathon to Waterloo, this classic of military history chronicles battles that changed the course of history. Originally published in 1851, at the zenith of British imperial power, it found an eager audience of readers who wanted to understand how Britain had achieved its tremendous influence...