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Europe's internal boundaries have changed greatly over the years, impacted by shifts in population, religion, and dominant despots; the History Atlas of Europe, by Ian Barnes and Robert Hudson, provides an easy way to grasp those national transformations. It's part of a series from Macmillan that also includes atlases for Africa, Asia, and South America, and while it has a text that's lucid, learned, and engaging, it's the maps that excel. The "Earliest People" map, with its settlements of Australopithecus, Neanderthal, and modern man of the late Upper Pleistocene, makes graphic sense of excavation sites like Lascaux and Szeleta. Other maps show the spread of agriculture (7000-2000 B.C.), early Greece, the span of the Hallstatt Celtic culture, Imperial Rome, the Russian Revolution, and European trade ties circa 1300. There's also a thought-provoking illustration showing where displaced peoples went in postwar Europe, providing relevant data for discussion of contemporary ethnic conflicts. --Stephanie Gold
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Entertaining, authoritative, overflowing with gorgeous graphics and cutting-edge maps, this innovative series brings history to life through word and imageand tells each continents story from the perspective of its people The Macmillan Continental History Atlases form a major series of five distinguished illustrated history books for the popular and student audiences. Each book stands on its own to present a clear, visually exciting, and comprehensive history of a continent through colorful maps, lively text, and illustrations prepared by leading cartographers and specialists in its history. As a group, the five volumes convey a unique and innovative understanding of world history. The series provides the first truly focused continental perspective on history. The books have been created to give popular history readers and students alike accurate and unbiased information written from the point of view of each continent (rather than from an exclusively Western European or colonial perspective). Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America are each described in 80,000 words of text, 50 color maps, and 70 illustrations and photographs. Each spread within a volume covers in detail a single topic in the historical development of that continent. Together, the spreads make up a complete historical background of the major events that shaped the continents past and present. Readers interested in a specific continent will find in each book an authoritative, absorbing, beautifully illustrated overview of that continents history. For readers interested in world history, the five volumes make up an invaluable resource for a full understanding of how the worlds jigsaw fits together. Europe is the smallest of the worlds continents, yet its culture and languages have come to dominate the world we know today. Dr. Ian Barnes has held many posts including Adjunct Professor of History at the University of North Carolina and American Institute for Foreign Studys summer schools in London, Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Oslo. Dr. Robert Hudson of Exeter University, a specialist in Eastern Europe and Asia, currently represent the European Union as an observer on elections in Bosnia, Serbia, and Croatia.
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