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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The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit, and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty
The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
Mexico: A 500-Year History
Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000
Hostage
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
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
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
Salt: A World History
The Guns of August
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
Pleyn Delit by Sharon ButlerThe Medieval Kitchen by Odile RedonCookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by ApiciusThe Little House Cookbook by Barbara M. WalkerMrs Beeton's Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton
Historical Cookery
317 books — 79 voters

The Great Influenza by John M. BarryThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Library Book by Susan OrleanLies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
Staff Picks: History
100 books — 3 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

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Trigger by Tim ButcherThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Learn About History
461 books — 187 voters
Spillover by David QuammenThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsGet Well Soon by Jennifer   WrightPandemic by Sonia Shah
Pandemics and Epidemics (nonfiction)
124 books — 14 voters


Abhijit Naskar
White history sells the West as the free world, but dig into earth history, and you'll realize, West is the biggest threat to life and freedom. ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

Alan Greenspan
America’s rise to greatness has been marred by numerous disgraces, prime among them the mistreatment of the aboriginal peoples and the enslavement of millions of African Americans. Yet judged against the broad sweep of history, it has been a huge positive. America has not only provided its own citizens with a prosperous life. It has exported prosperity in the form of innovations and ideas. Without America’s intervention in the Second World War, Adolf Hitler might well have subdued Europe. Withou ...more
Alan Greenspan, Capitalism in America: An Economic History of the United States

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