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Title: Timelines of World History by John B. Teeple, Dorling Kindersley Publishing ISBN: 0-7894-8926-0 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: I Rate and Compare World History Atlas Books
Comment: As a reader I like to have quick reference books at my finger tips including a new version of the Oxford English Dictionary about 3500 pages long - that I use almost daily. So I decided to add a "history atlas". In the process of doing my research I read the other amazon.com reviewers and then made three trips to two large book stores to actually look at the books and get a better feel for which was the best. I ended up buying the Oxford Atlas of World History. Here are my picks and rankings.
Listed by My ranking, #1 is the best, #2 is a creative alternative but no substitute.
1.Atlas of World History, Oxford University Press 2002, 368 pages, $57.80, 13.5" x 10.3" x 1.62" ranked 46,632 on Amazon.com. Hands down winner - professional - good text descriptions, outstanding maps and drawings, covers most things from the cave man forward. Negatives: Big and heavy. If you want to save a few dollars buy the "concise" version.
2.Creative alternative: The Penguin Atlas of World History, Penguin Books 2004, $11.20, just a paperback sized, just published, 304 pages. Surprisingly impressive, lots of text and pictures mixed together and it is easy to carry around. A nice quick alternative but it will be printed in two volumes.
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3.Timelines of World History, DK Publishing 2002, 666 pages, $27.20. 10.0" x 1.6" ranked 25,800 on Amazon.com. Second with lots of value but in some ways not as comprehensive.
4. National Geographic Almanac of World History, National Geographic 2003, 384 pages, $28.00, 9.6" x 7.8" x 1.17" ranked 24,426 on Amazon.com. Similar to but less impressive than Oxford books. More text, narrower coverage, fewer maps and drawings.
5.DK Atlas of World History, DK Publishing, 352 pages, $35.00, 10.96" x 14.66" x 1.28" ranked 10,716 on Amazon.com. My last place book seems like a giant comic book. I love the DK travel books but this seems like one step beyond DK's area of expertise. Superficially it is similar to the Oxford book and it is cheap, and some might like it but it tries to be politically correct and fails.
6.Oxford Dictionary of World History, Oxford University Press, 704 pages, $7,66, pocketbook sized, sales rank 330,000. Mainly terms, people, and dates but has a few maps also. Limited use but an alternative. I prefer the new Penguin book but this is the best history dictionary to buy.
Jack in Toronto
Rating: 5
Summary: An outstanding and very highly recommended presentation
Comment: John Teeple's Timelines Of World History packs a cross-cultural journey through human history in a timeline format which excels in color photos and drawings. High school through adult readers will find Timelines Of World History to be a delightfully easy way to absorb world history, as the colorful timelines offer the opportunity to easily compare cultural developments around the world at different points in time. An outstanding and very highly recommended presentation.
Rating: 3
Summary: A good starting point.
Comment: This book is a good place to start research, but only if the reader uses it as an initial reference. Readers would be wise to cross-check facts, since in a few moments I found errors in the early eras: the Hyksos in Egypt at the wrong time, Naran-sin of Agade ruling at the wrong time, Babylon mentioned before it ever was founded, Eqypt ruling Crete.
Later eras may have more accurate information.
The book is a good over-all view for one who wants the whole picture before going deeper into any particular time or place.
For general knowledge of contemporaneous events Jacquetta Hawkes' book has yet to be equaled.
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Title: The Timetables of History : A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events (The New Third Revised Edition) by Bernard Grun ISBN: 067174271X Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 15 December, 1991 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: DK Atlas of World History by Jeremy Black ISBN: 078944609X Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: The Encyclopedia of World History by Peter N. Stearns, Peter N Stearns ISBN: 0395652375 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 24 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: Atlas of World History by Patrick K. O'Brien, Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195215672 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $85.00 |
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Title: The Timetables of American History by Laurence Urdang, Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. ISBN: 0743202619 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 27 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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