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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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
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
A Flower Traveled in My Blood
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
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
Twopence to Cross the Mersey by Helen ForresterGrowing Up by Russell BakerA Girl from Yamhill by Beverly ClearyThe Dream by Harry BernsteinLittle Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Great Depression Memoirs
44 books — 11 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
269 books — 110 voters

A Spy Among Friends by Ben MacintyreIron Curtain by Anne ApplebaumThe Triumph of Improvisation by James Graham WilsonThe Billion Dollar Spy by David E. HoffmanThe Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
The Cold War (nonfiction)
371 books — 113 voters


Abhijit Naskar
The world doesn't have history, what we have is whitewashed history. The world doesn't have progress, what we have is westwashed progress. ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

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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