World History category: 14642 books
World Atlas of Pirates
Treasures And Treachery On The Seven Seas--In Maps, Tall Tales, And Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
By combining stunning cartography with engaging and authoritative text, The World Atlas of Pirates presents the story of piracy in a completely new way. Eighty maps plot the routes that pirates followed—whether crossing the world's great oceans or pursuing their prey through creeks and bays. Colorful...
A Search for Sovereignty
Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400–1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
A Search for Sovereignty approaches world history by examining the relation of law and geography in European empires between 1400 and 1900. Lauren Benton argues that Europeans imagined imperial space as networks of corridors and enclaves, and that they constructed sovereignty in ways that merged ideas...
The Care of the Witness
A Contemporary History of Testimony in Crises
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
During the twentieth century, witnessing grew to be not just a widespread solution for coping with political atrocities but also an intricate problem. As the personal experience of victims, soldiers, and aid workers acquired unparalleled authority as a source of moral and political truth, the capacity...
The Transnational Activist
Transformations and Comparisons from the Anglo-World since the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
This book provides the first historical and comparative study of the ‘transnational activist’. A range of important recent scholarship has considered the rise of global social movements, the presence of transnational networks, and the transfer or diffusion of political techniques. Much of this...
The Limits of Westernization
A Cultural History of America in Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
In a 2001 poll, Turks ranked the United States highest when asked: "Which country is Turkey's best friend in international relations?" When the pollsters reversed the question—"Which country is Turkey's number one enemy in international relations?"—the United States came in...
Translations In Times of Disruption
An Interdisciplinary Study in Transnational Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
This book throws light on the relevance and role played by translations and translators at times of serious discontinuity throughout history. Topics explored by scholars from different continents and disciplines include war, the disintegration of transnational polities, health disasters and revolutions...
by Sidney Lewis Gulick
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
On the 8th of February, 1904, Japan crossed swords with a European people. And from the destruction of the Variag on that day until the fall of Port Arthur on the ist of January, 1905, nothing but failure has been Russia's fate, nothing but success Japan's fortune. For the first time in history has...
by Carol Abaya
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Carol Goldstein Abaya Is an international award-winning journalist. She was the very first female journalist to travel extensively around the world and to interview heads of state one-on-one in developing countries with unstable economies.At a time when young women went to college for a MRS...
by Matthias Buschle, Daniel Hagmann
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
This book is all about events, discoveries and ideas which may have seemed small and insignificant at the time but later changed the world. DDT and LSD, Frick & Frack, the Basel Mission and the Zionist World Congress, Tadeus Reichstein and Friedrich Nietzsche, the first printed edition of the...
Beyond Women's Words
Feminisms and the Practices of Oral History in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Beyond Women’s Words unites feminist scholars, artists, and community activists working with the stories of women and other historically marginalized subjects to address the contributions and challenges of doing feminist oral history.
Feminists who work with oral history methods want to tell...
The Routledge History of Sex and the Body
1500 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
The Routledge History of Sex and the Body provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of sexuality from 1500 to the present day. The history of sex and the body is an expanding field in which vibrant debate on, for instance, the history of homosexuality, is developing. This book...
The Americans Are Coming!
Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
For more than half a century before World War II, black South Africans and “American Negroes”—a group that included African Americans and black West Indians—established close institutional and personal relationships that laid the necessary groundwork for the successful South African and American...
Power, Powerlessness, and Globalization
Contemporary Politics in the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
This book is about imperialism-driven globalization, its historic impact on Africa, Latin America, and Asia, and, over time, the varied responses of the national political units and regional entities in these continents to the challenges of building countervailing power and laying foundations for...
1968
Those Were the Days
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
A compendium of milestone stories and watershed events in popular culture, politics, and news at home and abroad from 1968, including the Assassination of Martin Luther King, an introduction of the Ford Escort, Apollo 8 and the first orbit of the moon, the Viet Cong Offensive, Bobby Kennedy getting...