Anthropology: Map information ANTH 4775

This full-color atlas spans the entire breadth of American history, from precolonial times to the present day. Vivid photographs, illustrations, and maps combine with graphs, charts, and boxed features to produce a lively, accessible reference. This beautifully illustrated atlas contains complete, up-to-date coverage of the cultural, historical, political, and social history of America. Beginning with the earliest settlement of the Americas more than 12,000 years ago, this stunning atlas integrates detailed maps with engaging narrative text. ""Atlas of American History"" gives thorough coverage of military history as well as migration, social, and religious history. It is divided into 10 chronologically arranged sections and is designed in accordance with the National Standards for United States History.

Popular for years as a high-quality reference tool, this atlas graphically portrays the unique growth of the United States from it's original Native American inhabitants to the latest immigration figures. This detailed atlas is designed to help students discover the geographic and political influences underlying our nation's history and growth. In addition to the outstanding maps, dramatic graphs and charts help bring American history to life.

The early 1990s have seen enormous transformations in global geopolitics, and yet the life experiences of the world's poor remain very little different from those experienced by their predecessors half a century, or even longer, ago. The Atlas of World Development is a collaborative project by leading researchers and scholars of the Developing Areas Research Group of the Institute of British Geographers and presents an original, stimulating and occasionally controversial graphic interpretation of the concepts and processes of world development. The global maps have been compiled and drawn specially for this book, and together with the clearly-written explanatory text and commentaries, provide a uniquely up-to-date, informed, and authoritative reference source on the present state of the world.

Using more than five hundred historical maps from collections around the world, this stunning book is the first to tell the story of America's past from a unique geographical perspective. Covering more than half a millennium in U.S. history--from conception to colonization to Hurricane Katrina--this atlas documents the discoveries and explorations, the intrigue and negotiations, the technology and the will that led the United States to become what it is today. Richly detailed, visually breathtaking maps are accompanied by extended captions that elucidate the stories and personalities behind their creation. Coasts and mountains, rivers and lakes, and peaks and plains are described by explorers encountering them for the first time. These maps can convey explorers' ideas of what lay over the mountains ahead, their notions about what was discovered, and their explanations of the land's potential for sponsors back home. The maps can also show a promoter's attempt to sell his project to settlers or a general's assessment of a coming battle.

The maps in this atlas aim to present the main historical developments of the last hundred years. Each map has been specially designed to help explain some important episode in recent history. Each continent is given as much importance as the events determine; not only wars and battles, but also treaties, alliances, population problems and political confrontations are the subject of these maps.