by Geoffrey Parker · Book Sales · tapa dura · ISBN 9780060155025
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«The World: An Illustrated History» is the illustrated history of the world edited by Geoffrey Parker (Book Sales, hardcover, 480 pages, in English).
A visual journey through world history from the Ice Age to the Cold War. It explains the movements of people, goods and ideas, the rise and fall of regional empires, and the progressive integration of the world into a global village, with abundant illustrations and maps.
Originally published in 1986, it is the companion book to the «The World» series by South Carolina Educational Television. This edition is a reprint.
Work aimed at the general public interested in world history and illustrated popularisation with maps.
Noel Geoffrey Parker is an English historian specialising in the history of Western Europe, Spain, and warfare during the early modern era. His best-known book is The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500–1800, first published by Cambridge University Press in 1988.
