Most Read This Week In 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

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Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

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The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

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Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent

Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill

Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes

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The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age

Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution

New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World

The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066

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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream

Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories

Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals

Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands

River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road

Revolusi. Indonesië en het ontstaan van de moderne wereld

Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China

A Most English Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria's Daughter

The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler

Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy

The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line (Feminist History Book for Adults)

Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955

How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks

Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival

Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World

How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler

Crown & Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II

Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of Terror

A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations

The Daughters Of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War

A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator

Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt

The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II

Blades of Freedom: A Tale of Haiti, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales, #10)

The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

The Story of China: The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream

The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb

Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End

Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan

The Earth Transformed: An Untold History

How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island

The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization

Countdown bin Laden: The Untold Story of the 247-Day Hunt to Bring the Mastermind of 9/11 to Justice

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town

The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World

Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II

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“ 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

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“ 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 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 was later expanded into a month by another white descendant, President Ronald Reagan - fast forward to present time - during the Hispanic Heritage Month the entire North America tries to celebrate Native American history. But there is a glitch - Spanish is not even a Native American language. Native Americans did not even speak Spanish, until the brutes of Spain overran Puerto Rico like pest bearing disease and destruction, after a pathetic criminal called Columbus stumbled upon "La Isabela" in the 1500s. Many of the natives struggled till death to save their home - many were killed by the foreign diseases to which they had no immunity. Those who lived, every last trace of their identity was wiped out, by the all-powerful and glorious spanish colonizers - their language, their traditions, their heritage, everything - just like the Portuguese did in Brazil. The Spaniards would've done the same to Philippines on the other side of the globe, had they had the convenience to stay longer. Heck, even the name Philippines is not the original name - the original name of the islands was (probably) Maniolas, as referred to by Ptolemy. But when the Spaniard retards of the time set foot there, they named it after, then crown prince, later Philip II of Spain. Just reminiscing those abominable atrocities makes my blood boil, and yet somehow, the brutal "glory" of the conquerors lives on as such even in this day and age, as glory that is. That's why José Martí is so important, that's why Kwanzaa is so important, that's why Darna is so important - in the making of a world that has a place for every culture, not just the culture of the conquerors. No other "civilized" people have done more damage to the world than the Europeans, and yet, on the pages of history books their glory of conquest is still packaged as glory, not as atrocity. Why is that? I don't know the answer - do you? Trillions of dollars, pounds and euros in aid won't suffice to undo the damage - but what just might heal those wounds from the past, is if the offspring of the oppressors and the offspring of the oppressed, both hand in hand and shoulder to shoulder, unravel the history as it happened, not as it was presented - what just might heal the scars of yesterday, is if together we come forward to learn about each other's past, so that for the first time in history, we can actually write "human history", not the "conquerors' history" - so that for the first time ever, we write history not as conquerors and conquered, not as oppressors and oppressed, but as one species - as one humankind. ...more ”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

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