{"id":46436,"count":32,"description":"World history<\/a> is an increasingly exciting subject for books. In a sign of the vitality of the field, it was a book of global history covering several millennia about the human history of the oceans\u2014David Abulafia's The Boundless Sea<\/em><\/a>\u2014that won the UK's most prestigious prize, the Wolfson History Prize, in 2020. Books taking a more global, long-term perspective have also become bestsellers, like Sapiens<\/i><\/a>, by the Israeli historian Yuval Harari, and The Silk Roads<\/i><\/a>, by Oxford historian Peter Frankopan (now also available in an illustrated edition for kids\/teenagers<\/a>).\r\n\r\nThe focus on greater diversity in publishing also bodes well for readers interested in learning the history of the world, as books about countries and peoples not previously given much attention are awarded prestigious prizes. Below, we\u2019ve collected together all our books relating to world history themes, as well as all our interviews about the history of particular countries or regions (we also have specialist sections devoted to American history<\/a>, British history<\/a>, German history<\/a> and Russian history<\/a>).","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/history-books\/world-history-books\/","name":"World History","slug":"world-history-books","taxonomy":"category","parent":83,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/46436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/83"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=46436"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=46436"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=46436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}