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 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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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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A Little History of the World

Abhijit Naskar
World History 101 - The Actual History History is not a record of truth, history is a record of triumph. The triumphant writes history as it fits their narrative - or to be more accurate, history is written by the conquerors for maintaining the supremacy of the conquerors, while the conquered lose everything. Let me give you an example. In a commendable endeavor of goodwill and reparations a descendant of the British conquerors, President Lyndon Johnson started Hispanic Heritage Week, which wa ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

Alan Moore
We hope to show that it is possible to read humanity's development as a dismemberment of sorcery, and propose that our current over-specialised and compartmentalised world of ideas is built entirely from the bloody gobbets of a butchered, pre-existing dreamtime. ...more
Alan Moore

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