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"

Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs
Korean Messiah: Kim Il Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea's Personality Cult
Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old
Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age
Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
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Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old
Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945
Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Cuba: An American History
The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
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
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Salt: A World History
The Guns of August
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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
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New Published – 2026 History list
42 books — 2 voters

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War History Non Fiction
11 books — 4 voters
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World History AP 2013
186 books — 27 voters

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238 books — 179 voters
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Food & Drink Histories (nonfiction)
196 books — 59 voters


Abhijit Naskar
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

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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