National Geographic Atlas - Grove, Noel
World History
KORTE INHOUD
00 The challenge to understanding history lies in the tendency to focus on single scenes instead of the big picture, akin to looking at a tapes-try by examining individual stitches instead of the entire design. The Atlas of World History undertakes a fair-minded journey through the human story by mingling close-up looks at events with broader views of what was then happening elsewhere in the world. Each of this book's six sections, arranged chronologically, opens with a world map that shows developments at various points of the compass, along with an essay about what was happening and why. Cross-cultural time lines run through the book like a thick thread, tying all of history together. Thus, as one reads a section on Charlemagne, for example, the time line shows selected events happening in Nubia, in India, in China, and in Cyprus. The text by author Noel Grove, a staff writer for 25 years with the National Geographic magazine, continues with a world-wide perspective usually ignored in wo...
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1990Uitgever: National Geographic Society400 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0792270487ISBN-13: 9780792270485Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Rug licht verkleurd. [Auteur: Grove, Noel] [Pagina's: 400] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: National Geographic Society] [Jaar: 1997] [Titel: Atlas of the world history]
