World History - Page 18

Why War?

There can be few more important but also more contentious issues than attempting to unde...

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The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin

Political thinkers from Plato to John Adams saw revolutions as a grave threat to society and advocat...

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What Is Ancient History?

It’s easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient history—obsolete, irrelevant, unjustifiabl...

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A History of Women in 101 Objects

A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive h...

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Goodbye Globalization: The Return of a Divided World

GOLD MEDALLIST IN THE 2024 AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS A bold new account of the state of globalizati...

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The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China

George Macartney’s disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role in the prevailing narrative...

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10 Mistakes That Changed History: The Reckless Rulers, Monumental Mishaps and Disastrous Decisions That Have Shaped Our World

We all make mistakes, but rarely do they change the course of human history. From brea...

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The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World

This remarkable book recreates one of the watershed moments in the history of the Middle East: the f...

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Battleground: Ten Conflicts That Explain the New Middle East

The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East The Middle East is in crisis. The shock...

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Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age: 1895-1965

Henry Becquerel’s accidental discovery, in Paris in 1896, of a faint smudge on a photographic plate...

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Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart Again

'The transformation of the US into an autocracy has advanced...Nobody has outlined this danger more...

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A Calculated Restraint: What Allied Leaders Said about the Holocaust

An eminent historian of the Holocaust examines why Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, though face...

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The Barn: The Murder of Emmett Till and the Cradle of American Racism

Emmett Till’s murder is one of the most infamous in American history; a moment that, more than any o...

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The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years

“An extraordinary achievement.” —David Edgerton, Literary Review “A remarkably researched, comp...

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India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent

Much of world history is Indian history. Home today to one in four people, the subcontinent has long...

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