General and world history Books

Modern Accomplishments, or The March of Intellect, offers a survey of the technological advances and achievements of the 19th century. From the steam engine to the telegraph, Catherine Sinclair provides readers with a comprehensive look at the scientific...

This sweeping history of the world offers a comprehensive look at the major events and figures that have shaped human civilization from ancient times to the modern era. Discover the evolution of political systems, religious traditions, and scientific...

Histoire de l'Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres depuis son établissement avec les éloges des académiciens morts depuis son renouvellement est un livre indispensable pour les amateurs d'histoire. Les auteurs, A. Coypel, Cl. Gros de Boze...

Écrit par Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, ce livre propose une étude sur la Révolution française du XIXe siècle, en examinant les pratiques révolutionnaires et industrielles qui ont façonné le monde moderne. Les lecteurs intéressés par l'histoire sociale et...

Dieses Werk bietet eine umfassende Geschichte der Grossen National-Mutterloge in den Preussischen Staaten genannt zu den Drei Weltkugeln. Von ihren Anfängen im 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart bietet es eine detaillierte und faszinierende Geschichte...

Dieses Buch ist der zweite Band einer wichtigen historischen Studie über das Jahr 1815. Der Autor beschreibt die Ereignisse des Jahres 1815, darunter die Schlachten von Waterloo und Ligny, die Neuordnung Europas nach dem Wiener Kongress und die...

Este libro aclara la historia de las sociedades secretas en el mundo antiguo y moderno, abarcando temas como la masonería y los Illuminati. Descubre los secretos detrás de estas organizaciones.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally...

This book provides an overview of the history of slavery and the movement to abolish it. Its author, Esther Copley, was a British historian and author who wrote extensively on the history of slavery and the anti-slavery movement. This work covers a wide...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

Author Corey Ford writes the classic and moving story of naturalist Georg Whlhelm Steller, who served on the 1741-42 Russian Alaska expedition with explorer Vitus Bering. Steller was one of Europe's foremost naturalists and the first to document the...

A critical editon of Jean de Vignay's 14th-century Les Merveilles de la Terre d'Outremer, a translation of the travelogue of Odoric, a Franciscan monk from northeastern Italy who spent much of the early 14th century traveling throughout Asia.

Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people's lives. This led to widespread...

While the current discussion of ethnic, trade, and commercial diasporas, global networks, and transnational communities constantly makes reference to the importance of families and kinship groups for understanding the dynamics of dispersion, few studies...

In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain, captivity emerged as both persistent metaphor and material reality. The exercise of power on an institutional and personal level created conditions in which those least empowered, particularly women,...

 Tracing the movement of people to and from Liberia in the nineteenth centuryEstablished by the American Colonization Society in the early nineteenth century as a settlement for free people of color, the West African colony of Liberia is...

An in-depth look into the foundations of mysticism and alchemy, this book describes both physical and spiritual aspects of the various theories and practices of transformation, with attention to the beliefs of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam,...

What is fanaticism? Is the term at all useful? After all, one person's fanatic is another's freedom fighter. This new book probves these key questions of the twenty first century.It details how throughout history there have been fanatics eager to...

This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the role played by law(s) in the British Empire. Using a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, the authors provide in-depth analyses which shine new light on the role of law in creating the...

Women, Diplomacy and International Politics since 1500 explores the role of women as agents of diplomacy in the trans-Atlantic world since the early modern age. Despite increasing evidence of their involvement in political life across the centuries, the...

In Remembering Genocide an international group of scholars draw on current research from a range of disciplines to explore how communities throughout the world remember genocide. Whether coming to terms with atrocities committed in Namibia and Rwanda,...

In A History of Global Consumption: 1500 - 1800, Ina Baghdiantz McCabe examines the history of consumption throughout the early modern period using a combination of chronological and thematic discussion, taking a comprehensive and wide-reaching view of a...

The Routledge Companion to Twentieth-Century Britain is a jargon-free guide to the social, economic and political history of Britain since 1900. Opening with a general introduction and overview of twentieth century Britain, the book contains a wealth of...

Conflict is central to human history. It is often the cause, course and consequence of social, cultural and political change. Military history therefore has to be more than a technical analysis of armed conflict. War in the Modern World since 1815...

Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires is a wide-ranging comparative study of the origins of today's ethnic politics in East Central Europe, the former Russian empire and the Middle East. Centred on the First World War Era, Ethnic Nationalism...

Historians, since the 1960s, argue that the French economy performed as well as did any economy in Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries thanks to the opportunities for profit available on the market, especially the large consumer market...

This book examines the practice of toleration and the experience of religious diversity in the early modern world.Recent scholarship has shown the myriad ways in which religious differences were accommodated in the early modern era (1500-1800). This book...

Food matters, not only as a subject of study in its own right, but also as a medium for conveying critical messages about capitalism, the environment, and social inequality to diverse audiences. Recent scholarship on the subject draws from both a...

This book charts the social and cultural history of the scientific technique known as "tissue culture." It shows how tissue culture was a regular public presence in twentieth-century Britain, and argues that history can contribute to current debates...

Interpreting the German-Polish relationship according to a paradigm of "synthesis" between nations, this book examines the process and socio-political effects of how conflict and contradiction between Germans and Poles gave rise to mentalities and...

One of the largest and most destructive prison riots in British history occurred in Dartmoor Convict Prison in 1932. Between 1932 and into the 1960s the Dartmoor 'mutiny' was the most widely-known outbreak in British prison history. This was partly due...

This text reconstructs the martial law suppression of the Jamaica uprising of 1865, and the subsequent debate and litigation these events spawned in England.