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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"

The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature
Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda
The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
A Flower Traveled in My Blood
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
The History of Money: A Story of Humanity
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
The Vietnam War: A Military History
Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
McNamara at War: A New History
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
The Greatest Nobodies of History: Minor Characters from Major Moments
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes
Ghosts of Hiroshima
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
America, América: A New History of the New World
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus
38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia
Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy
On Freedom
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler's All-Female Concentration Camp
Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland
Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England, 400–1066
The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line (Feminist History Book for Adults)
Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History
To Die Beautiful
Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
Cuba: An American History
Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes
The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit, and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty
Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich
Puerto Rico: A National History
Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter
Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
The Shortest History of China
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt From Alexander the Great to Cleopatra
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline – An Immersive World History Based on the Global Hit Podcast
The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs
The Rest is History: The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast
A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
Ghosts of Panama: A Strongman Out of Control, A Murdered Marine, and the Special Agents Caught in the Middle of an Invasion
An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West
After Jesus Before Christianity: A Historical Exploration of the First Two Centuries of Jesus Movements
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, Through the Women Written Out of It
After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America
Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories
The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History's Greatest Civilisations
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The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace (The Shortest History Series)
Korea: A New History of South and North
Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue
The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
Mexico: A 500-Year History
The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada and the End of the Norsemen

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Quotes Tagged “World History”

Abhijit Naskar
“ Maps of the world are whitewashed, history of the world is whitewashed, ethics of the world are whitewashed, knowledge of the world is whitewashed. ”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
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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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Videos Tagged “World History”

Alexander The Great - 'The Path to Power' and 'Until the End of the World' Two Part Documentary
Alexander The Great - 'The Path to Power' and 'Until the End of the World' Two Part Documentary
How The World Began & The History of Our Civilization| African Beginnings (Book Review)
How The World Began & The History of Our Civilization| African Beginnings (Book Review)
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