Atlas of World History, Volume 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution

by Hermann Kinder (Editor), Werner Hilgemann (Editor)

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In two volumes, The Penguin Atlas of World Historyjuxtaposes maps with a detailed and wide-ranging chronological summary of the main cultural, scientific, religious, economic and political events of the period. By working from a global viewpoint, the authors achieve an invaluable perspective on world developments and skilfully clarify complex historical situations. Volume One covers the period from the beginning of world history to the eve of the French Revolution and includes sections on- show more Prehistory and Early History The Early Empires Antiquity- Greece, the Hellenistic Period, Rome The Early, High and Late Middle Ages The Age of Transition The Age of Religious Discord The Age of Reason show less

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This is a fine little book, and despite it's small size, it comes packed with information. I sought it out after becoming fed up with all of my history texts having poor maps, or even no maps at all. The maps in this are clear and helpful, and the accompanying narrative, while *very* concise (we're talking centuries in a paragraph, at times), is also helpful. The narrative is macro history at its best, enough to give you a general idea of what was going on.

I'd recommend this for any history buff.
Classic reference works repackaged, these two volumes are indespensable for any historian or reader who wants to know when and where things are going on. The accompanying text is sparse and unadorned, but helpful, perhaps suffering from their "Germanness."
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Una nueva fórmula para comprender la historia a través de su desarrollo político, social, económico, bélico y cultural. Las claves de este desarrollo se encuentran en todo momento contrastadas con su marco geográfico gracias a un abundante material (mapas a todo color, planos, diagramas, etc.) que hace posible la fácil síntesis de los datos ordenados cronológicamente en el texto. Con más de veinte ediciones corregidas y aumentadas al hilo de los nuevos acontecimientos, el Atlas histórico de Hermann Kinder y Werner Hilgemann sigue siendo, hoy en día, la mejor y más completa herramienta de trabajo para el estudiante o el profesional de las humanidades. Enriquecida con numerosas ampliaciones relativas a la historia de la show more península Ibérica y del continente americano, la presente edición está revisada y aumentada hasta el año 2005. show less
An excellent reference for students of history.
ATLAS HISTÓRICO MUNDIAL

Una nueva fórmula para comprender
la Historia a través
de su desarrollo político,
social, económico, bélico y cultural.

Las claves de este desarrollo
se encuentran en todo momento
contrastadas con su marco geográfico
gracias a un abundante material
(mapas a todo color,
planos, diagramas, etc.)
que hace posible
la fácil síntesis de los datos
ordenados cronológicamente
en el texto.

La obra, original de Kinder y Hilgemann,
ha sido enriquecida con numerosas
ampliaciones relativas
a la historia de la
Península Ibérica
y del Continente Americano.

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Menze, Ernest A. (Translator)

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Canonical title
Atlas of World History, Volume 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
Original title
dtv-Atlas zur Weltgeschichte
Alternate titles*
dtv-Atlas zur Weltgeschichte Band 1
Original publication date
1964
First words
Vom Ende des Tertiärs bzw. vom unteren Mittelpleistozän datieren die frühesten Menschenfunde: die Australopithecinen oder Prähominiden (Name nach dem fund in Taungs, Transvaal, durch den Entdecker DARTS, 1924).
Man in the Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age)
Pre-hominids are known from the Late Tertiary (c. 6 mil. yrs ago); the earliest finds of man are c. 2.6 mil. yrs old and known as Australopithecus or Homo... (show all) australopithecus (named by the discoverer Raymond Dart in 1924, who made the first find at Taungs, Transvaal).
Last words*
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)1783 Aufhebung der Leibeigenschaft.
Original language
German
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History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
911History & geographyGeography & travelAtlases & Maps
LCC
G1030 .K5525Geography, Anthropology and RecreationAtlasesWorld atlases. Atlases of the Earth
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