ATLAS OF WORLD HISTORY

Description

The Atlas of World History by Patrick O’Brien is a comprehensive visual chronicle that spans 12,000 years of global history. Featuring over 450 full-color maps, 100 photographs, and 60 diagrams, this atlas presents key historical events and themes across various regions and eras. Structured into five major sections—The Ancient World, The Medieval World, The Early Modern World, The Age of Revolutions, and The Twentieth Century and Beyond—it offers readers a detailed exploration of humanity’s past. Each section begins with an introduction highlighting the main socioeconomic, cultural, and religious themes of the period, followed by spreads of maps, text, illustrations, and captions that discuss specific regions and eras.

This atlas is thoroughly cross-referenced, allowing readers to navigate through time and across regions, following themes or lines of inquiry. The updated edition incorporates new and revised maps and illustrations covering subjects such as population changes, international trade, urbanization, political and economic developments, literacy rates, and the distribution of world languages.

For those interested in a more concise version, the Concise Atlas of World History by the same author offers a compact yet rich overview, maintaining the high-quality cartography and scholarship of the original.