Product Description

Oxford's Atlas of World History is the result of years of intensive work by a specialist team of scholars editors and cartographers. It presents the story of humanity in its physical setting from the emergence of the earliest hominoids to the present day. Truly international in scope the atlas incorporates the latest research into Asian African and Central and South American history as well as the traditional core of North American and European events.

The Atlas includes sections on the Ancient World Medieval World Early Modern World Age of Revolutions and the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Each section opens with an introduction that highlights the main socioeconomic cultural and religious themes of the period followed by spreads of maps text illustrations and captions that discuss specific regions and eras. Spreads depict everything from hunting in Africa in 10000 BC to the kingdoms of Southeast Asia in the earliest years of the millennium the decline of the Byzantine Empire the growth of the Atlantic economies in the 18th century and standards of living since 1945.

The Atlas features some 450 vivid full-color maps illustrating the major themes and events of world history?? 100 photographs?? 60 diagrams and hundreds of thousands of words of explanatory text. Unique for such an atlas?? the entire work is thoroughly cross-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 pages.

The new edition brings the Atlas into the 21st Century and up to the present day. New and updated maps and illustrations cover a wide range of evolving subjects such as population