World history
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Broader term:Narrower terms:- World history -- Congresses
- World history -- Early works to 1800
- World history -- Historiography
- World history -- Juvenile literature
- World history -- Periodicals
- World history -- Religious aspects
- World history -- Sources
- Chronology, Historical
- History -- Dictionaries
- History -- Miscellanea
- History -- Study and teaching
- History, Ancient
- History, Modern
- History, Modern -- 17th century
- History, Modern -- 18th century
- History, Modern -- 19th century
- History, Modern -- 20th century
- History, Modern -- 21st century
- International relations -- History
- Middle Ages
- World politics
- Universal history
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Unmaking the West: "What-If?" Scenarios That Rewrite World History (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), ed. by Philip E. Tetlock, Richard Ned Lebow, and Geoffrey Parker (page images at HathiTrust)- The Scientific Revolution Revisited (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2015), by Mikuláš Teich (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- History of the World (9 volumes; ca.1923), by John Clark Ridpath (illustrated HTML with commentary at Ohio State)
- A Short History of the World (New York: J. J. Little and Ives Co., 1922), by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- A Short History of the World (New York: Macmillan, 1922), by H. G. Wells
- The Outline of History, Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by H. G. Wells, illust. by J. F. Horrabin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus, OH: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (St. Louis: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus OH: J. and H. Miller, 1857), by Thomas H. Prescott
- A General History for Colleges and High Schools (ca.1889), by P. V. N. Myers (Gutenberg text)
- A General History for Colleges and High Schools (Boston: Ginn and Co., 1889), by P. V. N. Myers
- General History for Colleges and High Schools (revised edition; Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1906), by P. V. N. Myers
- General History of Western Nations From 5000 B.C. to 1900 A.D., I: Antiquity (the only 2 volumes published; London, Macmillan and Co., 1908), by Emil Reich
- Landmarks of History (3 volumes; London: J. and C. Mozley et al., 1852-1857), by Charlotte M. Yonge
- Lardner's Outlines of Universal History: Embracing a Concise History of the World, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (originally written by Keightley for Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia; first American edition; Philadelphia: Hogan and Thompson, 1835), by Thomas Keightley, ed. by John Frost, contrib. by Dionysius Lardner, illust. by Ezra Atherton and Charles N. Parmelee
- Lardner's Outlines of Universal History: Embracing a Concise History of the World, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (originally written by Keightley for Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia; second American edition; Philadelphia: Hogan and Thompson, 1843), by Thomas Keightley, contrib. by Dionysius Lardner, illust. by Ezra Atherton and Charles N. Parmelee (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind (Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., c1920), by H. G. Wells, contrib. by Ernest Barker, Harry Johnston, E. Ray Lankester, and Gilbert Murray, illust. by J. F. Horrabin
- The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind (2 volumes in 1; Garden City, NY: Macmillan, 1920), by H. G. Wells, contrib. by Ernest Barker, Harry Johnston, E. Ray Lankester, and Gilbert Murray, illust. by J. F. Horrabin (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-Book and for Private Reading (New York and Chicago: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, and Co., c1885), by George Park Fisher
- Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-Book and for Private Reading (revised edition, 1904), by George Park Fisher (Gutenberg text)
- A Pictorial History of the World's Great Nations, from the Earliest Dates to the Present Time (2 volumes; New York: Selmar Hess, c1882), by Charlotte M. Yonge and John Andrew Doyle
- Retrospection: or, A Review of the Most Striking and Important Events, Characters, Situations, and Their Consequences, Which the Last Eighteen Hundred Years Have Presented to the View of Mankind (2 volumes in 1; London: Printed for J. Stockdale, 1801), by Hester Lynch Piozzi (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Valet's Tragedy, and Other Studies, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
- The World Displayed in its History and Geography, Embracing a History of the World from the Creation to the Present Day (2 volumes in 1; New York: W. W. Reed and Co., 1832), by Royal Robbins (page images at HathiTrust)
- The World's Story: A History of the World in Story, Song and Art (15 volumes; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1914-1918), ed. by Eva March Tappan, contrib. by Carl Ploetz, William H. Tillinghast, and Horatio W. Dresser (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Scope of History: Studies in the Historiography of Alfonso el Sabio (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1996), by Charles F. Fraker (page images at HathiTrust)
- Chronicles Selected From the Originals of Cartaphilus, the Wandering Jew: Embracing a Period of Nearly XIX Centuries (3 volumes; London: T. Bosworth, 1853-1854), by David Hoffman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Man the Measure: A New Approach to History (New York: Pantheon Books Inc., c1943), by Erich Kahler (page images at HathiTrust)
- Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective (c2006), ed. by Ann Curthoys and Marilyn Lake (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)
- Essai sur les Moeurs, et l'Esprit des Nations, et sur les Principaux Faits de l'Histoire, Depuis Charlemagne Jusqu'à Louis XIII (4 volumes in French, from an edition of Voltaire's works; 1775), by Voltaire
- Essai sur l'Histoire Générale et sur les Moeurs et l'Esprit des Nations, Depuis Charlemagne Jusqu'à Nos Jours (10 volumes in French; 1757), by Voltaire (page images at HathiTrust)
- Polycronicon (very early English printed edition; 1495), by Ranulf Higden, trans. by John Trevisa (multiple formats at archive.org)
- El-Mas'udi's Historical Encyclopaedia, Entitled "Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems" (only 1 volume published; London: Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1841), by -956? Masʻūdī, trans. by Aloys Sprenger
- Radulfi Nigri Chronica: The Chronicles of Ralph Niger (in Latin, with English notes; London: Printed for members of the Caxton Society, 1851), by Radulfus Niger, ed. by Robert Anstruther (multiple formats at Google)
- The Syriac Chronicle Known as That of Zachariah of Mitylene, by Zacharias, Bishop of Mytilene, trans. by F. J. Hamilton and E. W. Brooks (HTML at tertullian.org)
- Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, Monachi Cestrensis; Together With the English Translations of John Trevisa and of an Unknown Writer of the Fifteenth Century (9 volumes, in English and Latin; London: Longman et al., 1865-1886), by Ranulf Higden, ed. by Churchill Babington and J. Rawson Lumby, trans. by John Trevisa
- Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 3: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 4: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 5: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 6: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 7: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 8: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 9: multiple formats at archive.org
- all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
- Chronicon Quod Perfectissimum Inscribitur (14 volumes, in Arabic with Latin title pages; Lugduni Batavorum: E. J. Brill, 1851-1876), by 'Izz al-Dīn Ibn al-Athīr, ed. by Carolus Johannes Tornberg (page images at HathiTrust)
- On History: Introduction to World History (1831); Opening Address at the Faculty of Letters, 9 January 1834; Preface to History of France (1869) (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2013), by Jules Michelet, ed. by Lionel Gossman, trans. by Flora Kimmich and Edward K. Kaplan (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)
- The Story of Mankind (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1921), by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
- More Seeds of Knowledge: or, Another Peep at Charles, by Miss Corner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Parley's Common School History of the World: A Pictorial History of the World, Ancient and Modern, for the Use of Schools (new edition; Philadelphia: E. H. Butler and Co., 1870), by Samuel G. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)
- Peter Parley's Universal History on the Basis of Geography (2 volumes in 1; New York: M. H. Newman and Co.; et al., 1850), by Samuel G. Goodrich
- Stories From History (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, ca. 1876), by Agnes Strickland (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Story of Mankind, by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (Gutenberg text; 770K)
- The Story of the World: A Simple History for Boys And Girls (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London, T. C. and E. C. Jack, ca. 1913), by Elizabeth O'Neill
- Select Documents Illustrating Mediaeval and Modern History (London: P.S. King and Son, 1905), by Emil Reich (multiple formats at archive.org)
- History Without Chronology (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, c2019), by Stefan Tanaka (multiple formats with commentary at Lever Press)
- The Black and Terrible Year: or, A Chronological Record of the Principal Civil, Political, and Ecclesiastical Events, the Wars, Battles, Riots, Insurrections, Military Movements, Calamities on Sea and Land, etc., During the Year 1871 (Indianapolis: J. G. Doughty, printer, 1872), by S. Hawes (page images at HathiTrust)
- De Chronographo Arabe Anonymo Qui Codice Berolinensi Sprengeriano Tricesimo Continetur Commentationem (in Latin, with Arabic quotations; Bonnae: Typis Caroli Georgi, 1877), by Johann Wilhelm Rothstein (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dizionario delle Date, dei Fatti, Luoghi ed Uomini Storici: o, Repertorio Alfabetico di Cronologia Universale (6 volumes in Italian; Venice: G. Antonelli, 1842-1847), ed. by A. L. d' Harmonville (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hand-Book of Chronology and History (Putnam's Home Cyclopedia v1, 6th edition; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1853), by George Palmer Putnam
- A Hand-Book of Classical Geography, Chronology, Mythology, and Antiquities: Prepared for the Use of Schools (Boston: Swan, Brewer and Tileston, 1861), by Thomas Prentiss Allen and William Francis Allen
- The Treasury of Knowledge and Library of Reference (new and revised dition; 3 volumes; New York: C. Childs, 1850), contrib. by Edwin Williams, I. Daniel Rupp, Lyman Cobb, Hugh Moore, and Samuel L. Knapp
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