History of The World Map By Map Hardcover – January 1, 2018

Beautiful Coffee Table book. Solid, heavy, quality binding & paper, very high quality illustrations & graphics. Very interesting information! Fun to browse through at own pace.

Great way to best undersande history. Very complete maps and a lot of historial information with relevant events and sites of same. Fully recomended.

Beautiful book but the real gift is inside! There’s so much to learn.

DK Publishing has been a conspicuous presence in bookselling for a very long time, and for good reason.The company sometimes releases publications whose price seems very much like a misprint or some mistake.This book is an example of that.It is a finely bound, completely professional and reference-quality hardbound book, for next to nothing.The book might strike some readers as rather juvenile in the reading level assumed, and they'd be correct in that; it is a very basic introductory text, and directed at the novice. Which I am, mostly. So I'm quite happy with that.The graphics and artwork are incredible and most worthwhile. The text is very basic, uncomplicated, direct, avoids controversy, and is well-sourced.An exceptional value, and one of my favorite purchases ever on Amazon.

I bought three of these to give us gifts after getting my own. It’s absolutely beautiful my son said it’s something he will treasure forever.

I like this book. It does many things well. For the price it provides excellent content Nevertheless, I wish it were more complete in certain key areas. In European and other world history, it leaves out cartographic and literary content with respect to some pivotal events which led to the development of the world as we live it today. Likewise, there are key omissions from Latin American, African, and Asian histories which have profound influence on our present world. I will refer to just a few following. On pages 166-7 it has a fine ecclesiastical map Europe near the beginning(1555) of the Christian reformational era, and it discusses on 169 the Thirty Years War ending in 1648, but it omits including a map of the settlements of the Treaty of Westphalia which ended that conflict. A 1648 map to compare to the one of 1555 would be very helpful. It has a decent coverage of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era, but it fails again to indicate cartographically how the boundaries of the European political units of and the titles of noble lords of the units changed as a result of the wars and their aftermaths. Continuing, 200-1 has a map of South America at the time of the independence movement from Spain. But subsequent to this, we have nothing which illustrates the development of the boundaries of today's nation states, nor some of the events which led to the establishment of those borders. Leaping to the 20th Century, of course it covers the two world wars. It has considerable material on WW1, but what is missing is a more detail and clear cartographical and descriptive material on how the new nation states were born, and how the new borders of Germany were decided. Of course some of Germany's losses were simply imposed by the victors, but others were determined by plebiscite. I think this is important. The Austrian, Russian, and Turkish empires all lost land. How was this determined and how did the new political frontiers compare with the ethno-linguistic boundaries? (See for a good example the excellent map of Yugoslavia on pages 338-9) Also I think that the border settlements in Europe and Asia at the end of WW2 need a more thorough treatment, as well as a discussion again of political vs. ethnic boundaries and the large scale ethnic cleansing which went on in central and eastern Europe. There are other issues, but finally I wish there was some discussion and cartographic information around the partition of India in 1947.

Smithsonian's history map by map book provides an intelligible overview of world history, with illustrations and timelines to perfectly illuminate the subject matter and increase its comprehensibility. Not only is it rich in subject matter, a perfect read, but it its impressive cover and bindings allows the book to be displayed as a centerpiece on a coffee table or furniture.

Amazing detail lot of color definitely nice and neat