History of the World Map by Map (DK History Map by Map)

Smithsonian's history map by map book provides an intelligible overview of world history, with illustrations and timelines to perfectly illuminate the subject matter and increase its comprehensibility. Not only is it rich in subject matter, a perfect read, but it its impressive cover and bindings allows the book to be displayed as a centerpiece on a coffee table or furniture.

What a great book of maps. It has Everything unit through all the ages. I absolutely love it.,definitely recommend this book.

I have a collection of historical atlases and this is the best one I've ever seen. The maps are clear, detailed and the accompanying information brings each map to life. It can be used as a great reference book.Just open it up to any page and you will learn a lot. It is not eurocentric, and gives an excellent perspective on the history of every geographic region and of humankind.This is not a small volume but a truly comprehensive historical atlas. And at least in the United States, Amazon is selling it at a significant discount. Almost a steal!!

Amazing book but eye do have two very small complaints. First During the "Early Modern Period" 1450-1750 No Mention of Louis XIV France or Safavid Persia is truly unfortunate. Second The "Information Era" Is Sorely Missing The GWOT & The Entire Bush Administration Alongside The Obama Admin As Well Eye Do Appreciate The Covid Year Mention

Great! Best book with maps in all my life!

I like this book. It does many things well. For the price it provides excellent content Nevertheless, I wish it were more complete in certain key areas. In European and other world history, it leaves out cartographic and literary content with respect to some pivotal events which led to the development of the world as we live it today. Likewise, there are key omissions from Latin American, African, and Asian histories which have profound influence on our present world. I will refer to just a few following. On pages 166-7 it has a fine ecclesiastical map Europe near the beginning(1555) of the Christian reformational era, and it discusses on 169 the Thirty Years War ending in 1648, but it omits including a map of the settlements of the Treaty of Westphalia which ended that conflict. A 1648 map to compare to the one of 1555 would be very helpful. It has a decent coverage of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era, but it fails again to indicate cartographically how the boundaries of the European political units of and the titles of noble lords of the units changed as a result of the wars and their aftermaths. Continuing, 200-1 has a map of South America at the time of the independence movement from Spain. But subsequent to this, we have nothing which illustrates the development of the boundaries of today's nation states, nor some of the events which led to the establishment of those borders. Leaping to the 20th Century, of course it covers the two world wars. It has considerable material on WW1, but what is missing is a more detail and clear cartographical and descriptive material on how the new nation states were born, and how the new borders of Germany were decided. Of course some of Germany's losses were simply imposed by the victors, but others were determined by plebiscite. I think this is important. The Austrian, Russian, and Turkish empires all lost land. How was this determined and how did the new political frontiers compare with the ethno-linguistic boundaries? (See for a good example the excellent map of Yugoslavia on pages 338-9) Also I think that the border settlements in Europe and Asia at the end of WW2 need a more thorough treatment, as well as a discussion again of political vs. ethnic boundaries and the large scale ethnic cleansing which went on in central and eastern Europe. There are other issues, but finally I wish there was some discussion and cartographic information around the partition of India in 1947.

Amazing maps!

Great delivery seller took care to double bag insuring no damage thank you, book is perfect.