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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The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

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

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation

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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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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

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

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

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Lists

An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage

Food & Drink Histories (nonfiction)

198 books — 61 voters

Best World War II History (nonfiction)

690 books — 526 voters

Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

The Little House Cookbook by Barbara M. Walker

Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton

Historical Cookery

320 books — 82 voters

Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures by Kenneth Cain

Backstabbing for Beginners by Michael Soussan

My Holiday in North Korea by Wendy E. Simmons

Fieldwork, Flights, and F-ups

25 books — 1 voter

The Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun Ether

Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor Bombov

Techno-Cultural Rivalry by Frank Trommler

Underground Knowledge (fiction and nonfiction)

1,494 books — 865 voters

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. Moore

Api's Berlin Diaries by Gabrielle Robinson

War History Non Fiction

15 books — 15 voters

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Quotes Tagged “World History”

“ Our names (Global South) are not doormats of empire, our dust is larger than Greece and Rome. ”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

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“ More often and more insistently as that time recedes, we are asked by the young who our "torturers" were, of what cloth were they made. The term torturers alludes to our ex-guardians, the SS, and is in my opinion inappropriate: it brings to mind twisted individuals, ill-born, sadists, afflicted by an original flaw. Instead, they were made of the same cloth as we, they were average human beings, averagely intelligent, averagely wicked: save the exceptions, they were not monsters, they had our fac ...more ”
― Primo Levi

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