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World history, global history or transnational history (not to be confused with diplomatic or international history) is a field of historical study that emerged as a distinct academic field in the 1980s. It examines history from a global perspective. It is not to be confused with comparative history, which, like world history, deals with the history of multiple cultures and nations, but does not do so on a global scale.

Most Read This Week Tagged "World History"

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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization
Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Ghosts of Hiroshima
On Freedom
A Flower Traveled in My Blood
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus
The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
The History of Money: A Story of Humanity
The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda
The Greatest Nobodies of History: Minor Characters from Major Moments
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
Cuba: An American History
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England, 400–1066
The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America
Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy
Puerto Rico: A National History
The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit, and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty
Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History
Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives
The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler's All-Female Concentration Camp
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
The Rest is History: The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich
Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
The World After Gaza: A Short History
America, América: A New History of the New World
The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace (The Shortest History Series)
The Story of Russia
A Brief History of Equality
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy
Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue
How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island
The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
The Shortest History of China
How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes
Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare
Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
Peak Human: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
To Die Beautiful
Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany

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Quotes Tagged “World History”

Abhijit Naskar
“ Black History is World History, we are all offsprings of Africa. ”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
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Sarah J. Maas
“ ... the official history of this world is not necessarily to be believed. ”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath
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