World History category: 14642 books
by Robert Burnside
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
The JFK coup awakened the sleeping giant--the American Oligarchy. JFK and the World Oligarchy solves the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK, but the book's focus is on the evolution of the World Oligarchy and what enlightened Americans might do to invigorate their usurped liberties. The knowledge...
The Chicago World's Fair of 1893
A Photographic Record
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Originally conceived to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America, the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 was one of the largest (633 acres) and most influential aggregations of human talent, energy, and industry ever assembled. More than 27 million visitors entered the...
What Really Happened in Nanking?
A Spiritual Testimony of the Honorable Japanese Commander Iwane Matsui
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
The second book on Nanking Massacre using a religious journalism-type approach.
The so-called “Nanking Massacre” is the incident which the Chinese government claims the Japanese forces conducted during the Battle of Nanking in 1937. In June 2014, the Chinese government submitted an application...
The Killing of Osama Bin Laden: How the Mission to Hunt Down a Terrorist Mastermind was Accomplished
The Killing of Osama Bin Laden: How the Mission to Hunt Down a Terrorist Mastermind was Accomplished
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Part detective story. Part spy thriller. Part techno action blockbuster. This story absolutely does reads like a Tom Clancy novel, but true. FIVE STARS!" Amazon reviewer - Persephone Amazon reviewer - Tony Carcieri "I have to believe that either Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff is one heck of...
From Silk to Silicon
The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This is the first book to look at the history of globalization through the lens of individuals who did something transformative, as opposed to describing globalization through trends, policies, or particular industries. From Silk to Silicon tells the story of who these people were, what they did,...
The Dark Valley
A Panorama of the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The 1930s were perhaps the seminal decade in twentieth-century history, a dark time of global depression that displaced millions, paralyzed the liberal democracies, gave rise to totalitarian regimes, and, ultimately, led to the Second World War. In this sweeping history, Piers Brendon brings the tragic,...
Conspiracy
History’s Greatest Plots, Collusions and Cover-Ups
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
22 November 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist sympathizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald act alone, or did he have help? Is the Bilderberg Group simply...
The Silk Road
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from China to Rome. The reality was different--and far more interesting--as revealed...
Women Who Ruled
History's 50 Most Remarkable Women
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
'Poisoners', 'whores', 'witches' and 'murderers' - or so their enemies claimed. From Queen Nefertiti of Egypt, to the villainous Catherine de Medici and her flying squadron, to England's 'Gloriana' Elizabeth I, and the modern phenomenon of female prime ministers - Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, Margaret...
Fateful Choices
Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
The newest immensely original undertaking from the historian who gave us the defining two-volume portrait of Hitler, Fateful Choices puts Ian Kershaw?s analytical and storytelling gifts on dazzling display. From May 1940 to December 1941, the leaders of the world?s six major powers made a series of...
The Lords of Human Kind
European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
When European explorers went out into the world to open up trade routes and establish colonies, they brought back much more than silks and spices, cotton and tea. Inevitably, they came into contact with the peoples of other parts of the world and formed views of them occasionally admiring, more often...
1914: Fight the Good Fight
Britain, the Army and the Coming of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
‘No part of the Great War compares in interest with its opening’, wrote Churchill. ‘The measured, silent drawing together of gigantic forces, the uncertainty of their movements and positions, the number of unknown and unknowable facts made the first collision a drama never surpassed…in fact...
Sailors, Slaves, and Immigrants
Bondage in the Indian Ocean World, 1750–1914
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Slaves, convicts, and unfree immigrants have traveled the oceans throughout human history, but the conventional Atlantic World historical paradigm has narrowed our understanding of modernity. This provocative study contrasts the Atlantic conflation of freedom and the sea with the complex relationships in the Indian Ocean in the long 19th century.
Wide As the Waters
The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Next to the Bible itself, the English Bible was -- and is -- the most influential book ever published. The most famous of all English Bibles, the King James Version, was the culmination of centuries of work by various translators, from John Wycliffe, the fourteenth-century catalyst of English Bible...