Encyclopedia of world history
Encyclopedia of world history
Encyclopedia of world history book!
Review
The "Langer Encyclopedia," as the professional academics call The Encyclopedia of World History originally edited by the late William L. Langer, is basically a history of everything--and an outstanding reference volume.
Want to know why the English called their 10th-century king Ethelred "the Unready"? See page Or what the Ottoman Empire's constitution of said? See page Or when women in Honduras got the vote? See page This sixth edition, completely updated and revised by a team of scholars led by George Mason University's Peter N.
Stearns, packs all it can into a year-by-year and region-by-region chronicle of human life on planet Earth.
Usborne encyclopedia of world history
The book is big, the type is small, and the maps and genealogical tables are excellent. Stearns has added more material on women, leisure activities, and demographics to this edition, and the sections on Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Latin America are much different from the previous version.
As if this weren't enough, the book co