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Colin Peter McEvedy was born in Salford, Lancashire on the 6th of June 1930. He was the third son of Peter George McEvedy, a renowned surgeon, who was born in New Zealand.
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The book details population changes in every region of the planet from 400 BC to 1978 AD. McEvedy and Jones used seventy line graphs and accompanying commentary text to describe population changes in seventy regions. The only negative aspect of this book is that the authors estimates of pre-European, Native American populations are considerably lower than most other estimates and seem somewhat outdated. While many books describe population changes, few cover such a huge breadth of space and time and few give so much information so directly. This book is much appreciated and other books like this would certainly be welcome.
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From Alexandria to York, this unique illustrated guide allows us to see the great centers of classical civilization afresh. The key feature of Cities of the Classical World is 120 specially drawn maps tracing each city's thoroughfares and defenses, monuments, and places of worship. Every map is to the same scale, allowing readers for the first time to appreciate visually the relative sizes of Babylon and Paris, London, and Constantinople. There is also a clear, incisive commentary on each city's development, strategic importance, rulers, and ordinary inhabitants. This compelling and elegant atlas opens a new window on to the ancient world, and will transform the way we see it.
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In The Penguin Atlas of Modern History, Colin McEvedy has compiled an absorbing source of reference to the major developments of modern history from 1483 to 1815. Nearly forty maps and a detailed commentary follow the voyages of Columbus, Magellan, and Cook, the ebb of power from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic seaboard, and the protracted European struggle for control of a vastly new money economy.
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The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History illustrates, in a chronological series of maps, the evolution and flux of races in Europe, the Mediterranean area, and the Near East. From 50,000 B.C. to the fourth century A.D. the maps and their accompanying commentaries follow the ages of stone, bronze, and iron, and trace the movements and cultural developments of Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Indians, Hittites, Assyrians, Greeks, Persians, Celts, Etruscans, Carthaginians, Goths, Romans, and many other peoples. The front cover shows, front: a detail of the Peutinger Map which first came to light in Vienna in 1507, from a facsimile in the British Museum. Back: Italy, Cosmographia of Claudius Ptolemaeus, Bologna 1507, in the British Museum.
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Traces the migrations and evolution of the races as well as the development of civilizations from prehistoric times to the fourth century A.D.
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In The Penguin Atlas of Modern History, Colin McEvedy has compiled an absorbing source of reference to the major developments of modern history from 1483 to 1815. Nearly forty maps and a detailed commentary follow the voyages of Columbus, Magellan, and Cook, the ebb of power from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic seaboard, and the protracted European struggle for control of a vastly new money economy.
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The Penguin Atlas of Modern History: To 1815 The Penguin Atlas of Modern History: To 1815 by McEvedy, Colin ( Author ) Paperback Nov- 1986 Paperback Nov- 04- 1986
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This bestselling atlas is an ideal introduction to the major events and developments in Europe from 1815 to 2000. It now includes more than fifty completely new and updated color maps complemented by accessible, concise text. This revised edition also includes a new section covering 1980 to the dawn of the twenty-first century, with information on a wide range of issues, from population growth to the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.
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The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History illustrates in a chronological series of maps, the evolution and flux of races in Europe, the Mediterranean area and the Near East. From 50,000 B.C. to the fourth century A.D., it is one of the most successful of the bestselling historical atlas series.
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This invaluable reference work provides an account of the development of African society from 175 million years ago, through the first appearance of humans to the complex polity of the twentieth century. Colin McEvedy tracks the development of modern man, the differentiation and spread of languages, the first crossings of the Sahara, the exploration of the Niger, and the search for the 'fountains of the Nile'. Gold and ivory lure traders from far away; Christendom and Islam compete for African attention. Names from the distant past become nation-states with aspirations appropriate to the modern world. With sixty maps and a clear, concise text, this synthesis is especially useful to African studies and history teachers, but is also a fascinating guide for the general reader.
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This is a reference to the major developments of North American history from pre-human settlement to the American Civil War and more recent changes. Maps and commentary look at such areas as the settlements made by the American indians, European discovery and colonization, the Revolution, the expansion of the frontier, the struggles of the Civil War and the acceptance into the Union of the new states and territories.
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Colin Peter McEvedy was born in Salford, Lancashire on the 6th of June 1930. He was the third son of Peter George McEvedy, a renowned surgeon, who was born in New Zealand.
Colin was educated at Harrow School, where he was a scholar, and Magdalen College, Oxford.
McEvedy"s profession was psychiatry, in which he had a distinguished career. He became perhaps better known, though, as a historian and demographer, and certainly so by the public at large. Between 1961 and 2002 he produced a number of historical atlases which, unlike most such atlases, feature fixed base-maps.
In most cases, each atlas uses a single principal base-map, which is shown repeatedly, at many dates, as the atlas goes along, thus illustrating changes over the ages, from ancient down to modern, within the chosen area.
The accompanying text, typically, is mostly a running commentary on what the maps of a given atlas show. Another feature of the atlases is McEvedy"s witty and engaging writing-style, which he used on occasion to challenge established opinions among historians and demographers.
Although he was not, strictly speaking, a professional in those fields, he became professionally respected in them, with his views making their way into standard textbooks. He died in London, committing suicide following a diagnosis of terminal leukaemia.
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(The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History illustrates, in a ch...)
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( In The Penguin Atlas of Modern History, Colin McEvedy h...)
(In The Penguin Atlas of Modern History, Colin McEvedy has...)
(The Penguin Atlas of Modern History: To 1815 The Penguin ...)
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( From Alexandria to York, this unique illustrated guide ...)
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