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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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
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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
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Learn About History
459 books — 186 voters
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Big History
269 books — 110 voters


Sarah J. Maas
... the official history of this world is not necessarily to be believed.
Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath

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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