The Kingfisher history encyclopedia

Summary: A reference guide to world history, featuring a timeline, key date boxes, and biographies of historical figures. This authoritative reference book brings world history to life, from early humans to the current war on terror. Along the way, it reveals riveting facts on the founding of the great Roman Empire, the revolution that changed France forever, the war between the North and South that unified America, the start of World War I and the Great Depression that followed, the first moon landing, and the end of apartheid in South Africa. The encyclopedia is organized chronologically and then thematically within each time period. A timeline runs across the top of each page. Each section includes biographies of important people and features on art, architecture, and technology.

Record details

ISBN: 0753468751 (hc.)
ISBN: 9780753468753 (hc.)
Physical Description: vii, 491 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 29 cm.
print
Edition: Updated ed.
Publisher: New York : Kingfisher, 2012 c2004.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Ancient world 40,000-500 B.C. -- Classical world 499 B.C. - A.D. 500 -- Early Middle Ages 501-1100 -- Middle Ages 1101-1460 -- Renaissance 1461-1600 -- Trade and empire 1601-1707 -- Revolution and independence 1708-1835 -- Unification and colonization 1836-1913 -- World at war 1914-1949 -- Modern world 1950-present day -- Ready reference -- Index -- Acknowledgments.