Books like The secret history of the world by Mark Booth

Jared Diamond analyses why great civilizations collapse, linking environmental misuse, climate change, population pressures, and trade instability as common causes, and offering lessons from societies that survived.

John Reed’s 1919 account brings the seismic October Revolution to life, offering an eyewitness view of Russia’s 1917 upheaval and the actions of leading Bolsheviks.

A sweeping exploration of the history of ideas, from the invention of hand-axes to the rise of capitalism.

A. Ralph Epperson explores the symbolism of the Great Seal, translating the Latin phrase Annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum and arguing that the reverse side reveals a hidden agenda guiding American destiny.

Traces the history and origins of a variety of teachings, including New Thought and Hermetic wisdom, and their influence on society.

An accessible guide that explores historic and contemporary conspiracy theories and secret societies, helping readers distinguish fact from fiction.

In January 1788 the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who would be their new neighbors. Dancing with Strangers tells the story of what happened between the first British settlers of Australia and the people they found living there. Inga Clendinnen offers a fresh reading of the earliest written sources, the reports, letters, and journals of the first British settlers in Australia. It reconstructs the difficult path to friendship and conciliation pursued by Arthur Phillip and the local leader 'Bennelong' (Baneelon); and then traces the painful destruction of that hard-won friendship. A distinguished and award-winning historian of the Spanish encounters with Aztec and Maya indians of sixteenth-century America, Clendinnen's analysis of early cultural interactions in Australia touches broader themes of recent historical debates: the perception of the Other, the meanings of culture, and the nature of colonialism and imperialism.

Nicholas Redfern investigates fifty‑plus true events in history that have been concealed or ignored, from ancient times to the modern era, uncovering the secrets of human society and its encounters with the unknown.