Ranked: World History

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: World History


This is part of Get To Know The Peoples Of The World


World History
  1. The Lessons of History by Will Durant, Ariel Durant
  2. Conquests and Cultures: An International History by Thomas Sowell
  3. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
  4. The Evolution of Civilizations an Introduction to Historical Analysis by Carroll Quigley
  5. Wealth, Poverty and Politics by Thomas Sowell
  6. The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
  7. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
  8. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
  9. Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization by Nayan Chanda
  10. Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler
  11. Ways of the World: A Brief Global History with Sources by Robert W. Strayer
  12. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
  13. Capitalism: A Short History by Jürgen Kocka
  14. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
  15. World Cultures: Analyzing Pre-Industrial Societies In Africa, Asia, Europe, And the Americas by James T. Shea
  16. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor by David S. Landes
  17. The Times Complete History of the World by Richard Overy
  18. A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich
  19. Black Sea by Neal Ascherson

  1. (Circa 20th - Early 21st Century C.E.) Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
  2. (Circa 1945 Century - 2020 C.E.) Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
  3. (Circa 15th - 20th Century C.E.) The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present by Kenneth Pomeranz, Steven C. Topik
  4. (Circa 15th - Early 21st Century C.E.) Improbable Voices: A History of the World Since 1450 Seen From Twenty-Six Unusual Perspectives by Derek Dwight Anderson
  5. (Circa 18th - 20th Century C.E.) Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson
  6. (Circa 15th - 20th Century C.E.) 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann
  7. (Circa 1950s - 2007 C.E.) The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
  8. (Circa 20th - Early 21st Century C.E.) After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy by Christopher J. Coyne
  9. (Circa 15th - Early 21st Century C.E.) Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
  10. (Circa 20th Century C.E.) Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
  11. (Circa 2008 - 2012 Century C.E.) Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming by McKenzie Funk
  12. (Circa 20st Century - 2018 C.E.) Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
  13. (Circa 1st Century - 1776 C.E.) The Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith
  14. (Circa 20th Century C.E.) Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean by Jennifer Browdy De Hernandez
  15. (Circa 11th Century - 1885 C.E.) The National System Of Political Economy by Friedrich List

World History / Fiction
  1. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
  2. (Circa 18th Century C.E.) Candide by Voltaire

Central America, North America, and South America
  1. (Circa Primarily Before 15th - 16th Century C.E.) 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann

Europe, North America
  1. (Circa Early - Mid 20th Century C.E.) Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
  2. (Circa Late 19th - Early 20th Century C.E.) The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes
  3. (Circa Early - Mid 20th Century C.E.) Alliance: The Inside Story Of How Roosevelt, Stalin And Churchill Won One War And Began Another by Jonathan Fenby