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Publisher
Family Tree Books, an imprint of F & W Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
From Ireland to Italy, Portugal to Poland, Germany to Greece, and everywhere in between, explore your ancestors' European homelands through more than 200 gorgeous reproductions of 18th-century maps, 19th-century and early 20th-century maps. These full-color period maps--covering the peak years of European immigration to America--will help you understand changing boundaries in ancestral countries, and inform your search for genealogical records.
Author
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Mapping the Middle East explores the many perspectives from which people have visualized the vast area lying between the Atlantic Ocean and the Oxus and Indus river valleys over the past millennium. By analysing maps produced from the eleventh century on, Zayde Antrim emphasizes the deep roots of mapping in a world region too often considered unexamined and unchanging before the modern period. Indeed, maps from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,...
Author
Publisher
Blueprint Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Presents pictorial maps showing how twelve cultures saw the world. For some, it was a giant tree or an upside-down mountain, while others believed we were living on the back of a giant turtle. It reveals what the Egyptians, Greeks, Hindus, Norse, Polynesians, Aztecs, and many more believed, and includes an array of gods, monsters, heroes, tricksters, and fantastical beasts.
Author
Language
English
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Description
What is a country? Acclaimed travel writer and Oxford geography don Nick Middleton brings to life the origins and histories of fifty states that, lacking international recognition and United Nations membership, exist on the margins of legitimacy in the global order. From long-contested lands like Crimea and Tibet to lesser-known territories such as Africa's last colony and a European republic that enjoyed independence for a single day, Middleton presents...
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