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
Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World
The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old
This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why It Matters)
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
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan
A Flower Traveled in My Blood
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs
The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup - Winner of the Sports Book of the Year Award 2026
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
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
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
Country Ham by Steve CoomesSalt by Mark KurlanskyCod by Mark KurlanskyThe Botany of Desire by Michael PollanAn Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage
Food & Drink Histories (nonfiction)
198 books — 61 voters
Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures by Kenneth CainBackstabbing for Beginners by Michael SoussanA House in the Sky by Amanda LindhoutMy Holiday in North Korea by Wendy E. SimmonsDesert Flower by Waris Dirie
Fieldwork, Flights, and F-ups
25 books — 1 voter

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
Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingCollapse by Jared Diamond
Big History
272 books — 112 voters


Abhijit Naskar
No other "civilized" people have done more damage to the world than the Europeans. ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

Abhijit Naskar
If you want to establish plurality on planet earth, you must first dismantle the historic desecrator of plurality, which is eurocentrism.
Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

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