Atlas of the Year 1000

By John Man

Book Overview

some of it made available to nonspecialists for the first time.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674541871
• ISBN13: 9780674541870
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.8" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Deja Vu

Really shows what a difference 1,000 years can make. The most remarkable fact this atlas brings out is the border of Eastern Germany and the Slavs is almost exactly as today's border with Poland. Can this be a coincidence or were the allied powers after WWII knowingly trying to repeat history by forcibly removing 13 million Germans from lands east of the Oder and Niesse rivers ?

An impressive, informative historical survey.

John Man's Atlas Of The Year 1000 provides a fine choice for the Year 2000 reader: a survey of the inventions which took place around the world at the turn of the last century. Chapters pair sidebars of information and color maps with illustrations and lively descriptions of explorations and events which affected and changed the world of the times.

Brilliant performance

No book I've seen so perfectly portrays what a thousand years of human history means. It's an intriguing idea to scan, but then the sheer quality of the material John Man has found forces you to examine the work in detail after amazing detail---Chinese junks with 6 masts that could carry 500 people!