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The third edition was edited by Norman Stone, then Geoffrey Parker for the fourth, and Richard Overy for the fifth to the present ninth edition. Also, since the fifth edition the atlas was fully updated with digitalized maps and is renamed The Times Complete Atlas of World History , along with its smaller version of The Times Compact History of ...
The Encyclopedia of World History is a classic single-volume work detailing world history. The first through fifth editions were edited by William L. Langer. The Sixth Edition contained over 20,000 entries and was overseen by Peter N. Stearns. It was made available online until removed in 2009.
The design may have inspired later 'Maps of World History' such as the HistoMap by John B. Sparks, which chronicles four thousand years of world history in a graphic way similar to the enlarging and contracting nation streams presented on Adam's chart. Sparks added the innovation of using a logarithmic scale for the presentation of history.
World History: The Big Eras, A Compact History of Humankind (2009), 96pp; Neiberg, Michael S. Warfare in World History (2001) online edition; Patel, Klaus Kiran: Transnational History, European History Online, Mainz: Institute of European History(2011) retrieved: November 11, 2011. Richards, Michael D. Revolutions in World History (2003) online ...
The first edition had around 400 pages, with about 200 illustrations, including 21 maps. [3] Later editions were published with updated accounts of world events. [4] It was published in Penguin Books in 1936, and republished under Penguin Classics in 2006. [citation needed]
The History of the World (originally The Historie of the VVorld / In Five Bookes) is an incomplete work of history by Sir Walter Raleigh, begun in about 1607 whilst the author was imprisoned in the Tower of London, and first published in 1614. It covers the course of human history from Genesis to the conquest of Macedon by Rome. [1]
World history or global history as a field of historical study examines history from a global perspective. It emerged centuries ago; some leading practitioners are Voltaire (1694–1778), Hegel (1770–1831), Karl Marx (1818–1883), Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), and Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975).
Jerry Harrell Bentley (December 12, 1949 – July 15, 2012) [1] was an American academic and professor of world history. He was a founding editor of the Journal of World History since 1990. He wrote on the cultural history of early modern Europe and on cross-cultural interactions in world history.