On the Map
R.I. Moore considers what the new generation of world history atlases tells us about the state of history at the start of the third millennium.
A recurrent theme of Jeremy Black’s Maps in History (1997) is that the coincidence of technological advance with a rapid enlargement of the market for education and self-improvement is very likely to produce a new generation of historical atlases. The computer has duly obliged. 1999 saw the appearance of The Times History of the World, Philip’s Atlas of World History and The DK Atlas of World History.
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