Browse Sample Chapters in World History / Comparative History

• America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe. Volker R. Berghahn
• Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: From Triumph to Despair. Adeed Dawisha
• Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class. Keith David Watenpaugh
• A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire. M. Sükrü Hanioglu
• Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947. Albert Camus
• A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation. Eric D. Weitz
• The Challenge of Global Capitalism: The World Economy in the 21st Century. Robert Gilpin
• The Children of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, Islam: A New Edition. F. E. Peters
• The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam. Sidney H. Griffith
• Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan. Janice Boddy
• The Craft of International History: A Guide to Method. Marc Trachtenberg
  • Chapter 1 [PDF]
  • Chapter 4 [PDF]
• The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. David M. Goldenberg
• Earthquakes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Seismic Disruptions. Jelle Zeilinga de Boer & Donald Theodore Sanders
• Echoes of Violence: Letters from a War Reporter. Carolin Emcke
  • Chapter 1
• The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States. Sanford M. Jacoby
• The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States. Sanford M. Jacoby
• The Europeanization of the World: On the Origins of Human Rights and Democracy. John M. Headley
• Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History. David Frankfurter
• A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. Gregory Clark
• Feeding the World: An Economic History of World Agriculture, 1800-2000. Giovanni Federico
• Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War. Michael D. Gordin
• The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences. Ian Shapiro
• For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery. Rodney Stark
• The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions. Arno J. Mayer
• Globalization: A Short History. Jürgen Osterhammel & Niels P. Petersson
• Hinduism: Past and Present. Axel Michaels [PDF]
• A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel. Gudrun Krämer [PDF]
• The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World. David W. Anthony
• How Far the Promised Land? World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam. Jonathan Rosenberg
• Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain. Peter van der Veer
• Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil. James Holston
• Jihad in Islamic History: Doctrines and Practice. Michael Bonner
• Knowing the East. Paul Claudel
• The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror. Michael Ignatieff
• Managing Egypt's Poor and the Politics of Benevolence, 1800-1952. Mine Ener
• The Monotheists: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conflict and Competition, Volume I: The Peoples of God. F. E. Peters
• The Monotheists: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conflict and Competition, Volume II: The Words and Will of God. F. E. Peters
• Moral Purity and Persecution in History. Barrington Moore Jr.
• The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe. Patrick J. Geary
• The Necessary Nation. Gregory Jusdanis
• New Times in Modern Japan. Stefan Tanaka
• On Bullshit. Harry G. Frankfurt
• On the Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru. Sabine MacCormack
• One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism. Rodney Stark
• Politics as Religion. Emilio Gentile
• Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis. Paul Pierson [PDF]
• Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium. Ronald Findlay & Kevin H. O'Rourke
• Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan. Daniel V. Botsman
• The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900. Rudi Matthee
• Racism: A Short History. George M. Fredrickson
• Reaching for Power: The Shi'a in the Modern Arab World. Yitzhak Nakash
  • Chapter 1
• Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence. Elliott Horowitz
• The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire. Harold James
• Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification, the Soviet Collapse, and the New Europe. Angela E. Stent
• The Russian Moment in World History. Marshall T. Poe
• The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World. Lorenz M. Lüthi
• Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic. Jeremy Adelman [PDF]
• The Spaces of the Modern City: Imaginaries, Politics, and Everyday Life. Edited by Gyan Prakash & Kevin M. Kruse
• Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages. Saskia Sassen
• Torture and Democracy. Darius Rejali [PDF]
• W. Arthur Lewis and the Birth of Development Economics. Robert L. Tignor
• War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma. Christopher Herbert
• What They Think of Us: International Perceptions of the United States since 9/11. Edited by David Farber
• Who We Are: A History of Popular Nationalism. Robert H. Wiebe
• Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder. Daniel Chirot & Clark McCauley
• Women in the Middle East: Past and Present. Nikki R. Keddie

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