World History category: 14642 books
A Practical Guide to Studying History
Skills and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
*** PROSE Award Winner (2018) in the Textbook/Humanities Category ***
A Practical Guide to Studying History is the perfect guide for students embarking on degree-level study. The book:
- introduces students to the concepts of historical objectivity, frameworks and debate
- explains the...
Beyond Memory
Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Beyond Memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance analyses the intricate connections between silence, acts of remembrance and acts of forgetting, and relates the topic of silence to the international research field of Cultural Memory Studies. It engages with the most recent work in the field...
Antiquity
From the Birth of Sumerian Civilization to the Fall of the Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Bestselling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world—from the birth of Sumerian civilization around 3500 B.C. in the Tigris-Euphrates valley (present-day Iraq) to the fall of the Roman Empire in A.D. 476. In Antiquity, Cantor covers such subjects as...
Coal
A Human History
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
"Engrossing.... Coal, to borrow a phrase, is king." --New York Times Book Review
In this remarkable book, Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins hundreds of millions of years ago and spans the globe. Prized as "the best stone in Britain" by Roman...
Introduction to Russian Mennonites
A Story Of Flights And Resettlements-- To Homelands In The Ukraine, The Chaco, T
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Mennonites in Russia? Invited by Catherine the Great to farm the Russian steppes -- in exchange for exemption from military service -- Mennonite emigrants from Polish Prussia and The Netherlands made their home in Russia. Some remain today; many more eventually left for North and South Americas and...
by Tal Brooke
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
One World reveals why America's rapid descent is no accident and why once great liberties have been erased through staged crises:to bring in a New World Order through betrayal at the highest levels over a naïve,trusting public. We are now in a dangerous interlude before the trap closes. Freedoms...
Roman Legionary 109–58 BC
The Age of Marius, Sulla and Pompey the Great
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The Roman centurion, holding the legionaries steady before the barbarian horde and then leading them forward to victory, was the heroic exemplar of the Roman world. This was thanks to the Marian reforms, which saw the centurion, although inferior in military rank and social class, superseding the...
by William Beezley;Michael Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
The Oxford History of Mexico is a narrative history of the events, institutions and characters that have shaped Mexican history from the reign of the Aztecs through the twenty-first century. When the hardcover edition released in 2000, it was praised for both its breadth and depth--all aspects of...
I Used to Know That
History
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Travel back through time to learn about the invasions of Britain, the Renaissance, the American, French and Russian Revolutions, World Wars I and II and the Cold War... and everything else you forgot from your school history lessons.
Rogue Banking
A History of Financial Fraud in Interwar Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Since the turn of the millennium, the British media has been awash with stories of bankers and financiers caught engaging in acts of corporate wrongdoing and financial skullduggery. But just how different are these crimes to those committed in the past? And, is the threat of financial fraud greater...
Unveiling Traditions
Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2000
In Unveiling Traditions Anouar Majid issues a challenge to the West to reimagine Islam as a progressive world culture and a participant in the building of a multicultural and more egalitarian world civilization. From within the highly secularized space it inhabits, a space endemically suspicious of...
The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus
Rereading the Principle of Population
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus's Essay is also persistently misunderstood....
The Victory of Reason
How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Many books have been written about the success of the West, analyzing why Europe was able to pull ahead of the rest of the world by the end of the Middle Ages. The most common explanations cite the West’s superior geography, commerce, and technology. Completely overlooked is the fact that faith...
The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100
Europe, America, and the Third World
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2004
Nobel laureate Robert Fogel's compelling study, first published in 2004, examines health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. Throughout most of human history, chronic malnutrition has been the norm. During the past three centuries, however, a synergy between improvements...