World History category: 14642 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Honour, Violence and Emotions in History is the first book to draw on emerging cross-disciplinary scholarship on the study of emotions to analyse the history of honour and violence across a broad range of cultures and regions.
Written by leading cultural and social historians from around the...
by Mr Michael Robert Mumford
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Cannon & Explosives Paperback
Links to History from around the World
Over 400 thumbnail images and 104 full pages
hyperlinked interactive PDF Educational
Visual Index 1.1 eHistory GB Series
ISBN 9781912376360
1.3 Cannon & Explosives Introduction
2.8 Gun and Cannon Design C14th to C19th
3.7...
Roosevelt's Centurions
FDR and the Commanders He Led to Victory in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
“FDR’s centurions were my heroes and guides. Now Joe Persico has written the best account of those leaders I've ever read.”—Colin L. Powell
All American presidents are commanders in chief by law. Few perform as such in practice. In Roosevelt’s Centurions, distinguished historian Joseph...
It's Better Than It Looks
Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Is civilization teetering on the edge of a cliff? Or are we just climbing higher than ever?
Most people who read the news would tell you that 2017 is one of the worst years in recent memory. We're facing a series of deeply troubling, even existential problems: fascism, terrorism, environmental...
Rabid
A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
A maddened creature, frothing at the mouth, lunges at an innocent victim—and, with a bite, transforms its prey into another raving monster. It’s a scenario that underlies our darkest tales of supernatural horror, but its power derives from a very real virus, a deadly scourge known to mankind from...
by Richard J. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2005
"The clearest and most gripping account I've read of German life before and during the rise of the Nazis." —A. S Byatt, Times Literary Supplement
There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand than Hitler’s rise to power and the collapse of civilization...
War and Peace and War
The Rise and Fall of Empires
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2007
In War and Peace and War, Peter Turchin uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to offer a bold new theory about the course of world history.
Turchin argues that the key to the formation of an empire is a society’s capacity for collective action. He demonstrates that high levels of cooperation...
The Geography of Genius
A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Tag along on this New York Times bestselling “witty, entertaining romp” (The New York Times Book Review) as Eric Winer travels the world, from Athens to Silicon Valley—and back through history, too—to show how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times.
In this...
The Secret War
Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II—intelligence—showing how espionage successes...
The Social History of Agriculture
From the Origins to the Current Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
This innovative text provides a compelling narrative world history through the lens of food and farmers. Tracing the history of agriculture from earliest times to the present, Christopher Isett and Stephen Millerargue that people, rather than markets, have been the primary agents of agricultural change,...
The Code Book
The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code...
by Mark Kurlansky
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today’s world.
Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient...
Over the Edge of the World
Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage—now updated with a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of his journey.
“Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here...
by Daniel J. Boorstin
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. In the compendious history, Boorstin not only traces man's insatiable need to know, but also the obstacles to discovery and the illusion that knowledge can also put in our way. Covering time, the earth and...