Find Books - History 152 - World History II - Research Guides at Honolulu Community College

Books on the shelf

From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present
Call Number: CB245 .B365 2001
Why? Explaining the Holocaust
Call Number: D804.3 .H387 2017
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
Call Number: DA28.2 .C37 2012
Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
Call Number: DA680 .P53 2005
Africa in World History: From Prehistory to the Present
Call Number: DT20 .R49 2012
Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii
Call Number: DU625 .H28 2014
Fighting in Paradise: Labor Unions, Racism, and Communists in the Making of Modern Hawaiʻi
Call Number: HD6517.H3 H67 2011

Reference Books

Atlas of World History
Call Number: D21.5 .A89 2010
Great Events From History. The Renaissance & Early Modern Era, 1454-1600
Call Number: D228 .G73 2005 Vol. 1-2
Great Events From History. The 17th Century, 1601-1700
Call Number: D246 .G68 2006 Vol 1-2
Great Events From History. The 18th Century, 1701-1800
Call Number: D286 .G74 2006 Vol 1-2
Great Events From History. The 19th Century, 1801-1900
Call Number: D358 .G74 2007 Vol 1-4
Great Events From History. The 20th Century, 1901-1940
Call Number: D421 .G629 2007 Vol. 1-6
Great Events From History: The 20th Century, 1941-1970
Call Number: D421 .G6295 2008 Vol. 1-6
Great Events From History. The 20th Century, 1971-2000
Call Number: D421 .G6296 2008 Vol. 1-6

Japanese Internment Case

A Principled Stand: The Story of Hirabayashi v. United States
Call Number: E-BOOK

In 1943, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi defied the curfew and mass removal of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, and was subsequently convicted and imprisoned as a result. In A Principled Stand, Gordon's brother James and nephew Lane have brought together his prison diaries and voluminous wartime correspondence to tell the story of Hirabayashi v. United States, the Supreme Court case that in 1943 upheld and on appeal in 1987 vacated his conviction.

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The Real History of World War II by Alan Axelrod
Call Number: D743 .A93 2008

Traces the causes of World War II, explores the motivations of important people involved with it, presents the events of the war grouped by the theater in which they took place, and examines its aftermath.
The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts
Call Number: D743 .R56 2011

Winner of the British Army Military Book of the Year Award
A comprehensive history of World War II analyzes the factors that affected the war's outcome and presents stories of many little-known individuals whose experiences displayed the epitome of courage and self-sacrifice.
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall by Nina Willner
Call Number: DD281.5 .W56 2017
Publication Date: 2017

In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family--of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Forty Autumns makes visceral the pain and longing of one family forced to live apart in a world divided by two.
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
Call Number: DS763.63.C58 C43 2014

Cixi’s extraordinary reign saw the birth of modern China. Under her, the ancient country attained industries, railways, electricity, and a military with up-to-date weaponry. She abolished foot-binding, inaugurated women’s liberation, and embarked on a path to introduce voting rights. Packed with drama, this groundbreaking biography powerfully reforms our view of a crucial period in China’s—and the world’s—history.
Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945
Call Number: DS777.53 .M555 2014

Prizewinning historian Rana Mitter unfurls China's drama of invasion, resistance, slaughter, and political intrigue as never before. Based on groundbreaking research, this gripping narrative focuses on a handful of unforgettable characters, including Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Zedong, and Chiang's American chief of staff, "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell.

Nelson Mandela: The Struggle is My Life
Call Number: DT779.95 .M36 A57 1986

Nelson Mandela's speeches and political writings from his days as a leader of the African National Congress Youth League in 1944 until his release from prison in 1990.

The Apartheid State in Crisis
Call Number: DT1963 .P75 1991

Despite the considerable attention paid to South Africa in recent years, this text is unique in providing a comprehensive analysis of South Africa's politics through the 1980's.

Apartheid's Environmental Toll
Call Number: HC905.Z9 E53 1990

Environmental protection, policy, and race relations

South Africa: Apartheid & Divestiture
Call Number: DT763.5 .S584 1987

International economic relations, apartheid, race relations

Natural Resources Governance in Southern Africa
Call Number: E-BOOK

CHAPTER 1 - MINING

Marikana: Voices from South Africa’s Mining Massacre
Call Number: E-BOOK

The Marikana Massacre of August 16, 2012, was the single most lethal use of force by South African security forces against civilians since the end of apartheid. Those killed were mineworkers in support of a pay raise.

Contemporary Japan

Contemporary Japan, 2nd Edition by Jeff Kingston
Call Number: DS891 .K538 2013

This comprehensive study of Japanese history since the 1980s has been expanded and updated to include analysis of the cataclysmic earthquake and tsunami of March 2011 as well as its aftermath.

Call Numbers - HISTORY

If you like to browse the bookshelves, the following are some general call numbers to help you locate history books:

"D" - World History

D1-2027 History (General)
D251-271 Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
D301-309 Period of the French Revolution
D410-475 20th Century
D501-680 World War I (1914-1918)
D731-838 World War II (1931-1945)
- DA300-592 Great Britain, Modern (1485- )
- DAW Central Europe
- DB65-99.2 Austria/Czech, Modern (1592- )
- DC110-433 France, Monaco, Modern (1515- )
- DD175-257.4 Germany, Modern (1519- )
- DF701-951 Greece, Modern
- DG538-583.8 Italy, Modern (1492- )
- DJK Eastern Europe
- DL184-263.3 Northern Europe
- DP161-272.4 Spain, Modern
- DS Asia
- DT Africa

New

Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto by Tilar J. Mazzeo
Call Number: D804.66.S46 M29 2017

In 1942, one young social worker, Irena Sendler, was granted access to the Warsaw ghetto as a public health specialist. While she was there, she began to understand the fate that awaited the Jewish families who were unable to leave. Soon she reached out to the trapped families, going from door to door and asking them to trust her with their young children...
Great Grandfather's Drum by Opticus Media
Call Number: DVD 425
Publication Date: 2011

Americans of Japanese ancestry in Hawai'i, their history, traditions and life today, revealed through an intimate portrait of the families of the Maui Taiko drum ensemble.

Helpful Subject Terms

World War, 1914-1918

World War, 1939-1945

Japan history

Historiography

United States Army

France history revolution

China foreign relations

Holocaust, Jewish

Southeast Asia history

Islam history

Religions

Hawaii history

Military art and science history

History modern

China history

France history

Noteable History Books

The Third Reich at War, 1939-1945
Call Number: D757 .E83 2010
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
Call Number: D805.P6 N67 2009
War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust
Call Number: DD256.5 .B3916 2016
Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France by Moriz Scheyer; P. N. Singer
Call Number: DS135.A93 S3485 2017
Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965
Call Number: DS557.7 .M77 2009
Nation Within: The History of the American Occupation of Hawai'i
Call Number: DU627.4 .C64 2009
The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran
Call Number: E183.8.I55 C75 2013
American History Unbound: Asians and Pacific Islanders by Gary Y. Okihiro
Call Number: E184.A75 O378 2015

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

Empire of the Summer Moon
Call Number: E99.C85 P3835 2011

Subtitle: Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history.
Describes the actions of both whites and Comanches during a 40-year war over territory, in a story that begins with the kidnapping of a white girl, who grew up to marry a Comanche chief and have a son, Quanah, who became a great warrior.

History 152 - World History II: Find Books