Product Description

The second volume of the highly successful PENGUIN ATLAS OF WORLD HISTORY covers events from the French Revolution to the present day. Numerous maps help clarify a detailed chronological summary of the main events of the period throughout the world. This volume has now been updated to include recent events, from the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall to the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #100254 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 2
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

About the Author
Hermann Kinder & Werner Hilgemann

Customer Reviews

Excellent visual and outline review of world history
I used an earlier edition of this book in college almost 20 years ago. It was extremely useful for doing quick reviews before exams. Furthermore, it is an excellent and very portable reference for dates, places, names, major cultural themes, etc. of the past. I still use it during my history readings. A top choice.

If you want a good overview about history....
This is about the best overview of history I have ever seen: it clearly describes world history and not the ususal european centred history - everything from pre-historia to common age. The fact that maps are being used as well as diagrams helps an awful lot to give a clear overview without getting confused with minor details. I am not an historian but these books made me understand the general concept of history through time. And you know what? We are all the same, strange he.

The title is misleading
Looking for an atlas of WORLD HISTORY, I was attracted to this title.

It's maps are excellent. The religious, military, political and economic detail of Europe and the Mediterranean Basin in pre-history, antiquity, the middle ages and through to the French Revolution are indeed fantastic, as is the history which is mostly presented as a timeline within each issue. My only possible complaint is that the book itself is small and the maps need a keen eye.

However, there are very few maps on the rest of the world. China, the Middle East, Africa, the New World - there are very few maps, and many are about Europe's interaction and intervention in these regions.

In a word: Eurocentric. No doubt it was initially put together in the days when Europe was indeed thought to be the world - before the 1980s. It would deserve 5 stars if the title was 'The Penguin Atlas of European History'. Instead, for world history, why not try the Cassell's Atlas of World History by John Haywood: larger, and an actual world history, though contains less detail in its text.