World History

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.

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Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs
Korean Messiah: Kim Il Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea's Personality Cult
Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old
Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age
Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
A Flower Traveled in My Blood
Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old
Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945
Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Cuba: An American History
The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Salt: A World History
The Guns of August
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
A Short History of Nearly Everything
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
A Little History of the World
Unbroken by Laura HillenbrandBand of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseThe Longest Day by Cornelius RyanAn Army at Dawn by Rick AtkinsonWith the Old Breed by Eugene B. Sledge
Best World War II History (nonfiction)
699 books — 516 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayThe Crucible by Arthur MillerOn the Road by Jack KerouacPeter Pan by J.M. Barrie
1949-89: A History Lesson By Billy Joel
181 books — 48 voters

Twopence to Cross the Mersey by Helen ForresterGrowing Up by Russell BakerA Girl from Yamhill by Beverly ClearyThe Dream by Harry BernsteinLittle Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Great Depression Memoirs
44 books — 11 voters
1491 by Charles C. MannThe Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrieIron Kingdom by Christopher   ClarkIndia by John KeayAfrica by John Reader
World History AP 2013
186 books — 27 voters



Abhijit Naskar
There never was a war of the free world against fascism, there was only war between two versions of fascism - because the so-called free world has tortured and massacred more lives than the third reich could only dream of. There never was a world war between good and evil, there was only war between two evils. There never was a world war against tyranny, there was only war between an established tyrant regime and a rising one. The real first world war has just begun - the war between good and e ...more
Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

Alan Moore
We hope to show that it is possible to read humanity's development as a dismemberment of sorcery, and propose that our current over-specialised and compartmentalised world of ideas is built entirely from the bloody gobbets of a butchered, pre-existing dreamtime. ...more
Alan Moore

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