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World History

1. Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations: From the Ancient Near East through the Age of Absolutism

   James M. Brophy, Joshua Cole, Steven Epstein, Et Al.

   Fourth Edition / Volume(s): 1 / Chapters 1-15

   Perspectives from the Past is the most flexible and substantial reader for use in the two-semester Western Civilizations course.More

2. The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War

   Frederick Downs, Jr.

   “The best damned book from the point of view of the infantrymen who fought there.”—Army TimesMore

3. The Global Revolutions of 1968

   Jeremi Suri

   The revolutions of 1968 represent the culmination of 1960's protest movements across the globe.
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4. The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey through the Congo

   Daniel Liebowitz, Charles Pearson

   A noble rescue mission descends into a nightmare of cruelty, starvation, and cannibalism, bringing to a close the European exploration of Africa. "Liebowitz and Pearson have written an illuminating saga of the dark days of colonialism."—National Geographic AdventureMore

5. Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America

   John Charles Chasteen

   Second Edition

   Adopted at over 450 colleges and universities in its First Edition, Born in Blood and Fire has quickly become the standard survey history of Latin America.
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6. The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics

   R. P. T. Davenport-Hines

   A startling account of the history of drug abuse, this book forces us to reconsider many of our views on a controversial issue.More

7. Governing China: From Revolution to Reform

   Kenneth Lieberthal

   Second Edition

   Governing China: From Revolution to Reform, the leading text for courses on Chinese politics has been thoroughly revised and updated.More

8. The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History

   J. R. McNeill, William H. McNeill

   Why did the first civilizations emerge when and where they did? How did Islam become a unifying force in the world of its birth? What enabled the West to project its goods and power around the world from the fifteenth century on? Why was agriculture invented seven times and the steam engine just once?More

9. Globalization in World History

   A G. Hopkins

   Globalization has become an issue of the greatest urgency in the first decade of the new century.
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10. The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance

    Larry Gonick

    An irreverent survey in comics spanning world history from the birth of Islam to the Byzantine Empire to the Italian Renaissance.More

11. 1688: A Global History

    John E. Wills, Jr.

    "A totally absorbing book...imaginative and erudite, full of startling juxtapositions and flashes of real perception."—Jonathan D. SpenceMore

12. Japan: A Modern History

    James L. McClain

    Japan: A Modern History provides a comprehensive narrative that integrates the political, social, cultural, and economic history of modern Japan from the investiture of Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1603 to the present.More

13. The Muslim Discovery of Europe

    Bernard Lewis

    "Full of rare and exact information.... A distinguished work."—New York Review of BooksMore

14. Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World

    J. R. McNeill

    "Refreshingly unpolemical and at times even witty, McNeill's book brims with carefully sifted statistics and brilliant details."—Washington Post Book WorldMore

15. When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge

    Chanrithy Him

    Chanrithy Him felt compelled to tell of surviving life under the Khmer Rouge in a way "worthy of the suffering which I endured as a child."More