Atlas of World History

Description: ATLAS OF WORLD HISTORY CONCISE EDITION Oxford’s Atlas of World History Is the result of more than three years' intensive work by a specialist team of academies, editors, and cartographers, it presents the story of humanity in is physteal setting, from the evolution of Homo sapiens through the start of the 21st century, truly international in its approach, the atlas incorporates the latest research into Asian, Alriean, and South Amertean history, as well as the traditional core of North Ameriean and European events The atlas is organized into five parts, corresponding with the cras studied by world historians today. The Ancient Wortd, The Medieval World, The Early Modern World, The lach part opens with an introduction, nigenghing the main themes of the period, followed by individual spreads covering speele regions and events with maps, text, iflustrations, and captions. A comprehensive index of more than 8,000 entries includes numerous alternative name forms used over the centuries. The atlas eloses with a bibliography that provides a booklist tor suggested further reading. The atlas features some 450 specially created color maps llustrating the major themes and events of world history, 100 photographs, 60 diagrams and 200,000 words or explanatory text Uniquely for such an atlas, the entire work is thoroughly crows referenced, allowing the reader to move backwards and forwards in time or across the world from region to region, following themes or lines of inquiry across the map spreads, Created to fulfill the needs of both the general reader and the student, Oxford's Atlas of World History represents an exciting alternative to histories narrowly focused on the experience and perspectives of North Amerlean and European History, Covering alf the continents, and going back through twelve millennia, i

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