Storia del mondo in oltre 150 mappe

History of the World Map by Map, DK/Smithsonian, 2018, ISBN 9781465475855, Dewey 911, 440pp. Bland: Farming presented as progress--no admission that it was resorted to only when the abundant game was gone. Equates socialism with the USSR. p. 234. (In fact, socialism is public schools, and all other go Leggi tutto

Interesting overview of the globe and its history, but saddened that almost every map was about war. I'd love to see a companion volume about art, literature, science, discovery, music and so on that didn't have a single war reference in it. Given that we're human, though, that's unlikely to be poss Leggi tutto

Got this as a Christmas present for my mom this year -- I know she's going to love it. She's obsessed with maps and this book has a fantastic layout; it is also incredibly interesting to read!

خب این کتاب اولین کتابی بود که به معنای واقعی کلمه کتاب بالینی‌م شد و خوندنش برای من شیش ماه طول کشید و شد طولانی ترین زمانی که برای خوندن یک کتاب گذاشتم، ولی همین قدری که طولانی شد باعث شد صفحه صفحه‌ش رو بنوشم و بخونم و هر شب بشینم پای کلاس درسی که همزمان با توضیحات جذاب و استاد خفنش، یه پرده و پرو Leggi tutto

I am a dedicated DK fan. This is by far one of the best published work, again. The goal of this grant coffee table/ textbook is simple yet tough: writing seven thousand years of civilization within ~180 maps. They did it. Remarkably detailed, colorful rendering of maps, complete covering without any b Leggi tutto

Mesmerizing way of narrating History Thoroughly, Enjoyed every part of it. Deus Vult, Gottfried

This is only the Political History, so consists ONLY of short paragraphs listing dates and key military/political men. There is nothing here to integrate any of the conflicts or conquests into a coherent story, the way Jared Diamond, Yuval Harari, or Mann do. So nothing here remains memorable, excep Leggi tutto

The maps are stunning but the book itself is very inaccurate. The author calls Russia and Russian territories and states that didn't even exist before 1721. For example, he calls the territories captured by the Mongols Russian, but they were part of the Tsardom of Muscovy. Kievan Rus' is simply call Leggi tutto