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 Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail

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The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic

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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

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Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

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The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan

The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery

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Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

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World History Books

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

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

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

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Lists

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen

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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer

World War Two - Firsthand Accounts (nonfiction)

694 books — 489 voters

The Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun Ether

Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor Bombov

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World War II Combat Memoirs (nonfiction)

55 books — 12 voters

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing

1,882 books — 2,262 voters

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“ 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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“ South Earth Summon (Naskaristana 2800) I am the Son of South Earth, my spice-tolerance is superhuman, but lies-tolerance is nonexistent - my resilience knows no mortal limit, but I have zero tolerance for intolerance. I speak more languages than most northerners, I've devoured more scriptures than most northerners, I have assimilated more cultures and disciplines, which is why I say, there is no north, no south, when it comes to virtues and vices of human nature. So I'm not saying South is be ...more ”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

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