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In 1962, the Norwegian publishing house Cappelen issued an historical atlas in conjunction with the series Menneskenes liv og historie, popularly known as Grimberg's world history. The atlas became the 22nd and last volume in the series. In addition to 108 maps, it contained a registry of state leaders. [1] (Carl Grimberg died in 1941, and ...
William Robert Shepherd was born in Charleston, South Carolina on June 12, 1871. [1]In 1896, he completed his PhD at Columbia University.He then studied in Berlin and finally became professor of history at Columbia.
HistoAtlas is a free collection of historic geographic information of the human culture all over the world. This is achieved as a time enabled geographic information system ( GIS ) on the web. All information can be used and edited freely and is intended to be a resource for education , archaeologists , historians and others.
The Atlas, first published in 1978 in London, UK, sold more than two million copies in many languages. Its stated aim was to describe the major processes and events of world history across a broad canvas and omit tiny details of, say, ruling families, minor battles etc.
The atlas focused on ancient Greece. [2] In 1841, he drew the maps which appeared in a groundbreaking book on the Mideast, Biblical Researches in Palestine, written by Edward Robinson. [3] In 1848 his Historisch-geographischer Atlas der alten Welt was published. In 1854, his atlas, Atlas antiquus was released. It was translated into five languages.
In his 1992 article on the history of historical atlases, Black discussed the Eurocentrism of past efforts, the balance between text, images, and maps, the desirable level of detail, and the practical difficulties in compiling such atlases, which were time-consuming and expensive to produce, particularly if maps had to be created from scratch using primary sources and the atlas had a large ...
The Penguin Atlas of Modern History (1972) ISBN 0-14-051153-9; The Penguin Atlas of Recent History (1982) ISBN 0-14-051154-7. Revised as: The New Penguin Atlas of Recent History (2002) ISBN 0-14-051504-6; The Penguin Atlas of North American History (1988) ISBN 0-14-051128-8; The Penguin Atlas of African History (1980, 2nd ed. 1995) ISBN 0-14 ...