Appendix D

Go Deep: Further Readings in World History

General World History

Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present

Jerry Bentley, Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times; Shapes of World History in Twentieth-Century Scholarship

Jerry Bentley and Herbert Ziegler, Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past

Fernand Braudel, A History of Civilizations

Richard Bulliet, The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History

David Christian, Maps of Time

Philip Curtin, Cross-Cultural Trade in World History

Christopher Dawson, The Age of the Gods; Progress and Religion; The Making of Europe

Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

John Hall and John Kirk, History of the World: Earliest Times to the Present Day

Marshall Hodgson, Rethinking World History

John Keegan, A History of Warfare

William H. McNeill, A World History; The Pursuit of Power; Plagues and Peoples

Arnold Pacey, Technology in World Civilization

K. Pomeranz and S. Topik, The World that Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy; The Great Divergence: Europe, China and the Making of the Modern World

J. M. Roberts, The New Penguin History of the World

Peter Singer, One World: The Ethics of Globalization

Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West

L.S. Stavrianos, Global Rift: The Third World Comes of Age; A Global History

Arnold Toynbee, A Study of History

H. G. Wells, The Outline of History

Eric Wolff, Europe and the People without History

Europe

Peter Hunter Blair, Anglo-Saxon England

Norman Davies, Europe: A History

Will Durant, The Renaissance

Charles Freeman, Egypt, Greece, and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean

Daniel R. Headrick, The Tools of Empire: Technology & European Imperialism in the 19th Century; Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism

James Lawrence, The Rise and Fall of the British Empire

Nicholas Riasanovsky, A History of Russia

The Americas

David Bushnell and Neil Macauley, Emergence of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century

Geoffrey Conrad and Arthur Demerest, Religion and Empire: The Dynamics of Aztec and Inca Expansionism

Nigel Davies, The Aztec Empire

David Eltis, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas

J. Hyslop, The Inca Road System

Alvin Josophy, Jr., The Indian Heritage of America

Herbert Klein, The Atlantic Slave Trade

Thomas E. Skidmore and Peter H. Smith, Modern Latin America

J. Stanley and Barbara Stein, The Colonial Heritage of Latin America

Asia

Mark Borthwick, Pacific Century: The Emergence of Modern Pacific Asia

Hugh Cortazzi, The Japanese Achievement

John Fairbanks and Merle Goldman, China: A New History

Andre Frank, ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age

Rene Grousset, The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia

Ray Huang, China: A Macro History

David J. Lu, Japan: A Documentary History

R. H. P. Mason and J. G. Caiger, A History of Japan

Milton Osborne, Southeast Asia: An Introductory History

Anthony Reid, Charting the Shape of Early Modern Southeast Asia

Rhoads Murphey, A History of Asia

J.A.G. Roberts, A Concise History of China

Stanley Wolpert, A New History of India

Africa

Basil Davidson, Africa in History; African Civilizations Revisited

J. E. Inikori, Forced Migration: The Impact of the Export Slave Trade on African Societies

Patrick Manning, Slavery and African Life

Ali A. Mazrui, The Africans: A Reader and The Africans

James L. Newman, The Peopling of Africa: A Geographic Interpretation

Roland Oliver and J. D. Fage, A Short History of Africa

John Reader, Africa: A Biography of the Continent

Kevin Shillington, History of Africa

The Middle East

Philip Hitti, History of the Arabs

Marshall Hodgson, Adventure of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization

Bernard Lewis, Islam: From the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople

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