World and Big History

Why states rise and fall, explained through asabiyyah, the cohesion of a group.

History told through energy, from muscle and fire to coal, oil and electricity.

A military historian's reflections on what history teaches and why we ignore it.

Recurring patterns drawn from world history: biology, morals, religion, economics.

A history of discovery: time and the clock, the earth and seas, nature and society.

After the Cold War, conflict will follow cultural and religious fault lines.

Why past societies from Easter Island to the Maya collapsed, and what that teaches.

The standard general history of gambling.

A world history showing how control of water shaped political and economic power.

Six advantages, from competition to the work ethic, that let the West pull ahead.

Evidence that violence of nearly every kind has declined over history, and why.

Competing regional ideas of legitimate order and the balance of power.

How ancient DNA has rewritten the story of human prehistory and migration.

How land ownership shaped history: how people fight over, keep and share land.

Survey of what humans have known, era by era

Human behaviour read from evolutionary biology; a Munger latticework staple

History read as an expanding series of non-zero-sum games

History of Western philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance

How population change and migration made and unmade nations over two centuries.

How cities developed, from Egypt and Mesopotamia through Greece and Rome to today.

How science developed, and the discoveries that set humans apart from other species.

Military spending measured against the economy that has to carry it.

An enquiry into nationalism since 1780: its programme, its myths and its reality.

Why liberal democracy may be the end state of political change, and how people react.

How belief in one god shaped Western history, from religious wars to commandments.

How lactose tolerance, malaria resistance and blue eyes evolved in 10,000 years.

A second collection of notable letters, correspondence deserving a wider audience.

Twenty-one essays on today's challenges, from technology and politics to truth.

The whole of history, from the big bang through the present and into the far future.

Why liberty is hard to win and keep, and how it can survive new threats.

Published in Chinese only; no English edition exists.

How information networks, from the Stone Age to AI, have made and unmade societies.