Trefferliste "World History" - alle Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr

Robert Peckham

Panic

'Extraordinary' Ai Weiwei'Brilliant' Simon Schama Fear has long been a driving force - perhaps the driving force - of world history: a coercive tool of power and a catalyst for radical change. Here, Rober…

John Charles Chasteen

After Eden

In After Eden, prominent Latin American historian John Charles Chasteen provided a concise history of the world, in which he explores the origins and persistence of the timeless phenomena of humanity's in…

Carthusian Monasticism

This volume seeks-through the work of a number of experts in various fields-to explore monastic life as embodied by Carthusian monks and nuns. Medieval and Early Modern Carthusians are omnipresent in a nu…

Alexandra Churchill, Nicolai Eberholst

Ring of Fire

The dramatic story of 1914---the start of World War I---presenting an expansive, dynamic history of the start of this truly global conflict.Most countries did not know what they were getting into during t…

Erik Peterson

The Shortest History of Eugenics

For the last two centuries, groups of influential men have, in the professed interest of fiscal responsibility, crime reduction, and outright racism, attempted to control who was allowed to bear children.…

The Gas Sector in Latin Europe's Industrial History

This volume sheds light on the technical and institutional handicaps that the gas industry had to face since the early 19th century to consolidate its position in the energy market. It traces the history …

Peter Englund

November 1942

The New York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice • An intimate history of the most important month of World War II, completely based on the diaries, letters and memoirs of the people who lived through itAt t…

Nick Lloyd

The Eastern Front

'The First World War from a refreshingly unfamiliar angle . . . masterly' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'Compelling . . . The Eastern Front is essential reading' Margaret Macmillan, Financial Times'A ma…

Rethinking U.S. World Power

Since the late-1990s, diplomatic historians have emphasized the importance of international and transnational processes, flows, and events to the history of the United States in the world. Rethinking U.S.…

Paula Akpan

When We Ruled

'A searing, nourishing journey through a history the world needs' - Bettany Hughes, bestselling author of The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World 'Please read it!' - Philippa Gregory, bestselling author of…

Andy Warner

Andy Warner's Oddball Histories: Spices and Spuds

"Andy Warner sifts through the nuts and bolts of our long, complicated history with the earth's resources"--

Jack Ashby

Nature's Memory

A behind-the-scenes tour through the world's greatest natural history museums, revealing how their hidden secrets can help us in the fight against climate changeZoologist Jack Ashby spends his life workin…

Josephine Quinn

How the World Made the West

"In How the World Made the West, Oxford historian and classicist Josephine Quinn poses perhaps the most significant challenge ever to the "civilizational" thinking regarding the origins of …

The Damned

The Black Album

Sie waren die erste UK-Punkband, die einen Plattenvertrag unterschrieben und markierten mit ihrer auf Stiff Records erschienenen Debüt-Single »New Rose« gleich den ersten Höhepunkt einer Bewegung nach der…

Thomas A Guglielmo

Divisions

Divisionsdraws together the history of race and the military; of high command and ordinary GIs; and of African Americans, white Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, arguing that racist d…

Megan C. Reynolds

Like

"A comprehensive and thought-provoking investigation into one of the most polarizing words in the English language"--

Rick Nelson

The Jasmine EP Collection

Philomena Cunk

The World According to Cunk

"Romans! Madrigals! The Dark Ages! Revolutions! Trumpets! The Oranges of The First World War! All of this (except trumpets) and more, is covered in this definitive, easy-clean history of all world hi…

Terry Deary

Terrible True Tales: First World War

Horrible Histories author Terry Deary presents an exciting collection of tales from the First World War based on thrilling true stories - four books in one!