World History

History of the Peloponnesian War 《伯罗奔尼撒战争史》 Thucydides Thucydides’ account of the war between Athens and Sparta was written by a participant who aimed to record events precisely and to explain them by… World History Classic Index 95

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 《罗马帝国衰亡史》 Edward Gibbon Gibbon’s multivolume history runs from the height of Rome to the fall of Constantinople, famous for its scale, its prose, and its interpretive… World History Classic Index 94

Guns, Germs, and Steel 《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》 Jared Diamond Diamond sets out to answer a deceptively simple question: why did Eurasian societies conquer the rest of the world, and not the other way around?… World History Classic Index 93

Sapiens 《人类简史》 Yuval Noah Harari Harari narrates the whole arc of Homo sapiens, from foraging bands to global empires, around a single claim: what lets strangers cooperate at scale… World History Classic Index 92

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order 《文明的冲突与世界秩序的重建》 Samuel Huntington Huntington advances a predictive thesis: with the Cold War over, the main fault lines of global conflict would shift from ideology and economics to… World History Classic Index 91

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich 《第三帝国的兴亡》 William Shirer Shirer, a journalist turned historian, narrates Nazi Germany from its origins to its collapse, drawing heavily on captured documents and on his own… World History Classic Index 91

1587, A Year of No Significance 《万历十五年》 Ray Huang Huang examines a single unremarkable year in the Ming dynasty to show how the empire’s institutional structure — its fiscal system, its bureaucracy… World History Classic Index 91

The Guns of August 《八月炮火》 Barbara Tuchman Tuchman narrates the first month of World War I, tracing how mobilization timetables, alliance commitments, and mutual misreading of intentions… World History Classic Index 90

Postwar 《战后欧洲史》 Tony Judt Judt synthesizes European history from 1945 to the early 2000s: reconstruction, Cold War division, welfare states, decolonization, the memory of… World History Classic Index 90

The End of History and the Last Man 《历史的终结与最后的人》 Francis Fukuyama Fukuyama argues that with the collapse of the Soviet bloc, liberal democracy had emerged as the only remaining legitimate form of government, and he… World History Classic Index 89

World Order 《世界秩序》 Henry Kissinger Kissinger traces the history of international order from the Peace of Westphalia to the present, contrasting the Westphalian system of sovereign… World History Classic Index 88

The Silk Roads 《丝绸之路》 Peter Frankopan Frankopan retells world history from the lands between the Mediterranean and China, arguing that for most of recorded history the center of gravity… World History Classic Index 85

World History 2005 Helen of Troy Bettany Hughes Helen of Troy 《特洛伊的海伦》 Bettany Hughes Beauty culture, the goddess as symbol, and the making of power. World History AZM's list

World History 1919 Democratic Ideals and Reality Halford Mackinder Democratic Ideals and Reality 《陆权论》 Halford Mackinder Geopolitics and the contest between sea power and land power. World History AZM's list

World History 2023 zhao-lin 共塑：西方文化精神的演变 《共塑》 zhao-lin How Christian faith and humanist reason together shaped the West. World History AZM's list

World History 2023 zhao-lin 古罗马帝国的辉煌 《古罗马帝国的辉煌》 zhao-lin Rome's rise and fall and the expansion of an autocratic empire. World History AZM's list

World History 1974 Russia Under the Old Regime Richard Pipes Russia Under the Old Regime 《旧制度下的俄国》 Richard Pipes The history of tsarist rule and the making of totalitarian institutions. World History AZM's list

World History 2019 Aftermath Harald Jähner Aftermath 《狼性时代》 Harald Jähner Rebuilding everyday psychology in Germany after the war, 1945 to 1955. World History AZM's list

World History 2014 su-san 文明大趋势 《文明大趋势》 su-san The logic of geographic diffusion and the fate of Chinese civilization. World History AZM's list

World History 2023 Uwe Neumahr 作家城堡 《作家城堡》 Uwe Neumahr The Nuremberg trials as seen by journalists from every side. World History AZM's list

World History 2018 Rise and Kill First Ronen Bergman Rise and Kill First 《先发制人》 Ronen Bergman The history of Mossad assassinations and the Middle East they shaped. World History AZM's list

World History 2021 February 1933 Uwe Wittstock February 1933 《文学之冬》 Uwe Wittstock Artists exiled and silenced after the Nazis came to power. World History AZM's list

World History 1944 Why Don't We Learn from History? B. H. Liddell Hart Why Don't We Learn from History? 《战争的底层逻辑》 B. H. Liddell Hart A strategist's last work on the folly of rulers and history's lessons. World History AZM's list

World History 2017 Leonhard Horowski 诸王的欧洲 《诸王的欧洲》 Leonhard Horowski Court politics and the collapse of the old order in 17th and 18th century Europe. World History AZM's list

World History 2009 Christian Meier 自由的文化：古希腊与... 《自由的文化》 Christian Meier The conditions of freedom in the Greek polis and the origins of Europe. World History AZM's list

World History 2015 Eiji Oguma 活着回来的男人 《活着回来的男人》 Eiji Oguma An ordinary Japanese soldier's life story, and how people become raw material. World History AZM's list

World History 2000 Culture Matters Samuel Huntington Culture Matters 《文化的重要作用》 Samuel Huntington How values shape the progress of nations and civilizations. World History AZM's list

World History 2003 The Coming of the Third Reich Richard J. Evans The Coming of the Third Reich 《第三帝国的到来》 Richard J. Evans The collapse of the Weimar Republic and the Nazi seizure of power. World History AZM's list

World History 2019 luo-xin 有所不为的反叛者 《有所不为的反叛者》 luo-xin Essays on history that question how we know the past. World History AZM's list

1177 B.C. 《文明的崩塌》 Eric H. Cline The Late Bronze Age Mediterranean did not fall to a single invasion but to a systemic collapse produced by multiple simultaneous shocks World History Daily Pick

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers 《大国的兴衰》 Paul Kennedy Where national power comes from and how it drains away: the long contest between economic base and strategic commitment across five centuries World History Daily Pick

The Sleepwalkers 《梦游者》 Christopher Clark No one truly wanted the war, yet Europe walked into it: Clark asks not who was guilty but how it happened World History Daily Pick