World History category: 14642 books
Power and Liberty
(edited and introduced by Albert Meltzer)
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
In this essay, Tolstoy maintains his theory of great men as the myths and tickets of history. History, he asserts, must give up the idea that great men rule us, and busy itself with the discovery of the idea of humanity. One looks for the overthrow of the French Empire not in this or that decision...
by Philip Rousseau
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Charting the first six hundred years of the Christian movement, THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CENTURIES carries the reader from the world of second-temple Judaism to the Byzantine age, the rise of Islam, and the beginnings of medieval European polities.With a combination of rare tact and acuity, Philip Rousseau...
海權爭霸：世界7大海洋的歷史與地緣政治，全球列強戰略布局與角力
Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans
Language: Chinese
Release Date: August 1, 2018
◆文明的搖籃、發展與衝突、貿易戰爭、殖民爭霸、強權併吞、生態環境
◆海洋是世上最大犯罪現場？最多不法之地？
◆大海的一切，牽動著陸地上的人類，7大海洋的過去與未來如何影響世界？
萬海歸宗，一切要從海說起！
我們往往只關注陸地，卻忽略更遼闊、影響人類命運的海洋大歷史
研究人類歷史，不只是陸地，海洋史更不能缺席
它左右了歷史走向，是世界史的縮影！
海洋的重要性，遠超乎我們的想像
蘊藏石油、天然氣、金屬礦產、漁產等重要資源的海洋，為各國所覬覦
全球水道互相連通，也牽動著全球事務及地緣政治，新海上大戰一觸即發
海權是人類史的推手，造就今日世界的樣貌，也決定未來的命運
繼美國海軍史學家...
Dark Continents
Psychoanalysis and Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2003
Sigmund Freud infamously referred to women's sexuality as a “dark continent” for psychoanalysis, drawing on colonial explorer Henry Morton Stanley’s use of the same phrase to refer to Africa. While the problematic universalism of psychoanalysis led theorists to reject its relevance for postcolonial...
by Stephen Lovell
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
Almost twenty years after the Soviet Unions' end, what are we to make of its existence? Was it a heroic experiment, an unmitigated disaster, or a viable if flawed response to the modern world? Taking a fresh approach to the study of the Soviet Union, this Very Short Introduction blends political history...
by Stephen Henighan
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
In this essay collection, Henighan ranges across continents, centuries and linguistic traditions to examine how literary culture and our perception of history are changing as the world grows smaller. He weaves together daring literary criticism with front-line reporting on events such as the end of the Cold War in Poland and African reactions to the G8 Summit.
A History of Communications
Media and Society from the Evolution of Speech to the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
A History of Communications advances a theory of media that explains the origins and impact of different forms of communication - speech, writing, print, electronic devices and the Internet - on human history in the long term. New media are 'pulled' into widespread use by broad historical trends and...
by Niccolo Machiavelli
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
This new edition of the acclaimed translation of Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince - revised for the first time after thirty years - includes a rewritten and extended introduction by Quentin Skinner. Niccolò Machiavelli is arguably the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political...
by Frederic Austin Ogg
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
The fall of Montreal, on September 8, 1760, while the plains about the city were still dotted with the white tents of the victorious English and colonial troops, was indeed an event of the deepest consequence to America and to the world. By the articles of capitulation which were signed by the Marquis...
Second Chance
Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
America's most distinguished commentator on foreign policy, former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, offers a reasoned but unsparing assessment of the last three presidential administrations' foreign policy. Though spanning less than two decades, these administrations cover a vitally...
Outline of History (Illustrated)
Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2014
Outstanding!
Obviouly, the book is dated and now some items have proven to be incorrect, but much of it is both timeless and insightful, if not inciteful.
It reads more like a novel than the history texts we are used to. Wells also injects his own insights and critiques, and is quite philosophic on many topics.
by Sean Moncrieff
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Stark Raving Rulers is a series of profiles of twenty of the world’s most ruthless dictators.
In many forgotten or ignored parts of the world, there are still men who have inherited entire countries from their families, or blatantly rig elections to stay in power. Like latter-day Roman Emperors,...
Everything Explained That Is Explainable
On the Creation of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's Celebrated Eleventh Edition, 1910-1911
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Everything Explained That Is Explainable is the audacious, utterly improbable story of the publication of the Eleventh Edition of the legendary Encyclopædia Britannica. It is the tale of a young American entrepreneur who rescued a dying publication with the help of a floundering newspaper, and in...
Floods, Famines, and Emperors
El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
In 1999, few people had thought to examine the effects of climate on civilization. Now, due in part to the groundbreaking work of archaeologist Brian Fagan, climate change is a central issue. Revised and updated ten years after its first publication, Floods, Famines and Emperors remains the definitive account of how the world's best-known climate event had an indelible impact on history.