Author: Peter Davidson
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1620082888
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Beautifully illustrated with 60 fascinating maps and many illustrations. Accessible and informative history of all of the world's major empires, describing the reasons for their rise and decline. Reviews all of the major empires in world history, including those often overlooked such as the Malian, Aztec and Inca Empires. Stunning amount of information, covering over 4000 years of history. Includes updated section on the European Union. Now available in paperback.
Atlas of Empires
Author: Peter Davidson
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1620082888
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Beautifully illustrated with 60 fascinating maps and many illustrations. Accessible and informative history of all of the world's major empires, describing the reasons for their rise and decline. Reviews all of the major empires in world history, including those often overlooked such as the Malian, Aztec and Inca Empires. Stunning amount of information, covering over 4000 years of history. Includes updated section on the European Union. Now available in paperback.
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1620082888
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Beautifully illustrated with 60 fascinating maps and many illustrations. Accessible and informative history of all of the world's major empires, describing the reasons for their rise and decline. Reviews all of the major empires in world history, including those often overlooked such as the Malian, Aztec and Inca Empires. Stunning amount of information, covering over 4000 years of history. Includes updated section on the European Union. Now available in paperback.
The New Map of Empire
Author: S. Max Edelson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674978994
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
After the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years’ War in 1763, British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Florida Keys, from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River, and across new islands in the West Indies. To better rule these vast dominions, Britain set out to map its new territories with unprecedented rigor and precision. Max Edelson’s The New Map of Empire pictures the contested geography of the British Atlantic world and offers new explanations of the causes and consequences of Britain’s imperial ambitions in the generation before the American Revolution. Under orders from King George III to reform the colonies, the Board of Trade dispatched surveyors to map far-flung frontiers, chart coastlines in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, sound Florida’s rivers, parcel tropical islands into plantation tracts, and mark boundaries with indigenous nations across the continental interior. Scaled to military standards of resolution, the maps they produced sought to capture the essential attributes of colonial spaces—their natural capacities for agriculture, navigation, and commerce—and give British officials the knowledge they needed to take command over colonization from across the Atlantic. Britain’s vision of imperial control threatened to displace colonists as meaningful agents of empire and diminished what they viewed as their greatest historical accomplishment: settling the New World. As London’s mapmakers published these images of order in breathtaking American atlases, Continental and British forces were already engaged in a violent contest over who would control the real spaces they represented. Accompanying Edelson’s innovative spatial history of British America are online visualizations of more than 250 original maps, plans, and charts.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674978994
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
After the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years’ War in 1763, British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Florida Keys, from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River, and across new islands in the West Indies. To better rule these vast dominions, Britain set out to map its new territories with unprecedented rigor and precision. Max Edelson’s The New Map of Empire pictures the contested geography of the British Atlantic world and offers new explanations of the causes and consequences of Britain’s imperial ambitions in the generation before the American Revolution. Under orders from King George III to reform the colonies, the Board of Trade dispatched surveyors to map far-flung frontiers, chart coastlines in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, sound Florida’s rivers, parcel tropical islands into plantation tracts, and mark boundaries with indigenous nations across the continental interior. Scaled to military standards of resolution, the maps they produced sought to capture the essential attributes of colonial spaces—their natural capacities for agriculture, navigation, and commerce—and give British officials the knowledge they needed to take command over colonization from across the Atlantic. Britain’s vision of imperial control threatened to displace colonists as meaningful agents of empire and diminished what they viewed as their greatest historical accomplishment: settling the New World. As London’s mapmakers published these images of order in breathtaking American atlases, Continental and British forces were already engaged in a violent contest over who would control the real spaces they represented. Accompanying Edelson’s innovative spatial history of British America are online visualizations of more than 250 original maps, plans, and charts.
Historical Atlas of the Ancient World, 4,000,000--500 BC
Author: John Haywood
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780760719718
Category : Civilization, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780760719718
Category : Civilization, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Empires in World History
Author: Jane Burbank
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691152365
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Burbank and Cooper examine Rome and China from the third century BCE, empires that sustained state power for centuries.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691152365
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Burbank and Cooper examine Rome and China from the third century BCE, empires that sustained state power for centuries.
Atlas of the British Empire
Author: Christopher Alan Bayly
Publisher: New York : Facts on File
ISBN: 9780816019953
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Maps trace the development of the British Empire from 1500 to the present
Publisher: New York : Facts on File
ISBN: 9780816019953
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Maps trace the development of the British Empire from 1500 to the present
Atlas of the Roman World
Author: Tim Cornell
Publisher: Checkmark Books
ISBN: 9780871966520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This comprehensive, three-part historical and cultural atlas documents the origins of Rome and Greek influence, the transition from Republican to Imperial Rome, and the rise and decline of the Roman Empire
Publisher: Checkmark Books
ISBN: 9780871966520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This comprehensive, three-part historical and cultural atlas documents the origins of Rome and Greek influence, the transition from Republican to Imperial Rome, and the rise and decline of the Roman Empire
Great Empires
Author: Stephen Garrison Hyslop
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426208294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Depicts 30 great empires of the world from 2600 B.C. to the 20th century in images and maps that show the territories held by each ruler, major trade routes, paths of military campaigns and other important landmarks.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426208294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Depicts 30 great empires of the world from 2600 B.C. to the 20th century in images and maps that show the territories held by each ruler, major trade routes, paths of military campaigns and other important landmarks.
Viking Empires
Author: Angelo Forte
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521829922
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Viking Empires, first published in 2005, is a definitive global history of the Viking World.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521829922
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Viking Empires, first published in 2005, is a definitive global history of the Viking World.
History of the World in Maps
Author: Times Atlases
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 9780008147792
Category : Historical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
From Babylonian tablets to Google Maps, the world has evolved rapidly, along with the ways in which we see it. In this time, cartography has not only kept pace with these changes, but has often driven them. In this beautiful book, over 70 maps give a visual representation of the history of the world.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 9780008147792
Category : Historical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
From Babylonian tablets to Google Maps, the world has evolved rapidly, along with the ways in which we see it. In this time, cartography has not only kept pace with these changes, but has often driven them. In this beautiful book, over 70 maps give a visual representation of the history of the world.
The New Atlas of World History
Author: John Haywood
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780691152691
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"First published in the United Kingdom in 2011 by Thames & Hudson Ltd...London"--Colophon.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780691152691
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"First published in the United Kingdom in 2011 by Thames & Hudson Ltd...London"--Colophon.