The story of civilisation presented through fascinating and authoritative maps and text. Detailed coverage of Africa, Asia and Oceania as well as Europe and the Americas. Ideal for home, secondary school and college. Each spread portrays key developments in a region over a specific period of time. General Editor Patrick O'Brien was Director of Historical Research at the University of London.
Philip's Atlas of World History
The book also contains a wealth of additional historical information, including a detailed 22-page time chart, a 20-page gazetteer of historical places, concise biographies of significant figures and an extensive 20-page indexSuccessfully ...
Atlas of World History
Synthesizing exceptional cartography and impeccable scholarship, the Atlas of World History traces 12,000 years of history with 450 full color maps and over 200,000 words of text. In addition, more...
Featuring more than six hundred maps, this reference combines the visual detail of an atlas with a comprehensive narrative of world history from ancient times to the present
A lavishly illustrated look at the most important atlases in history and the cartographers who made them.
Now available in paperback, the first entirely new historical atlas for 20 years, covering every region of the world at every period of its history
The World Atlas of Archaeology Mitchell Beazley, London 1985/Portland House, New York 1988 Gardner, J.L. (ed.) ... London 1996 Muir, R. Muir's Historical Atlas: Ancient, Medieval and Modern Philip's, London 1963 Parker, G.I. (ed.) ...
More than 70 maps give a visual representation of the history of world commerce, accompanied by text which tells the extraordinary story of the merchants, adventurers, middle-men and monarchs who bought, sold, explored and fought in search ...
In this time, cartography has not only kept pace with these changes, but has often driven them. In this beautiful book, over 70 maps give a visual representation of the history of the world.