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.

New Releases Tagged "World History"

Hiroshima, 8:15: The Lost Memoir
Empire of Ashes: Truman, Hirohito, and the Descent into Total War
Biological War: A Scenario
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why It Matters)
Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945
Hiroshima, 8:15: The Lost Memoir
Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
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)
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
A Little History of the World
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayThe Crucible by Arthur MillerOn the Road by Jack KerouacPeter Pan by J.M. Barrie
1949-89: A History Lesson By Billy Joel
180 books — 47 voters
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Big History
273 books — 113 voters

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World War II Fiction & Non-fiction
828 books — 445 voters


Abhijit Naskar
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

Eurocentrism is quite simply the colonizer's model of the world. ...more
J.M. Blaut, The Colonizer's Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History

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A group for those interested in books useful for teaching or learning AP World History.
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World History Teachers We focus on one recently published (about the last five years) history book per month. We’ll dis…more
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Silent World — A discussion group A place to discuss all the unique aspects of Deaf culture as highlighted in the thriller Silent …more
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Might as well start a book group because I had no idea this was a thing...
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