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Atlas of Ancient America ( Cultural Atlas )
Coe, Michael, Dean Snow and Elizabeth Benson
Book Number: 55587
ISBN: 0705408655
Publisher: Time Life 1994
4to. Hardcover in d/w, 240pp. As new. Index. Illustrated in colour throughout. Text, illustrations, and maps survey the history, art, and archaeology of the original cultures native to North, Central, and South America.
Price: $22.00
Cultural Atlas of Russia and the Soviet Union ( Cultural Atlas )
Milner-Gulland, Robin with Nokolai Dejevsky
Book Number: 55590
ISBN: 070540644x
Publisher: Time Life 1994
4to. Hardcover in d/w, 240pp. As new. Index. Illustrated in colour throughout. This volume provides an account of the cultural history of Russia and the Soviet Union from 860 AD to modern times. It begins by describing the location of Russia in the world and its lack of natural frontiers or an obvious "heartland", and then discusses the early people and their language. The atlas includes a discussion of early Russia, the rise and decline of Kiev as a political and cultural centre, the early development of the modern cities such as Moscow and St Petersburg, and the two revolutions of 1917. The volume concludes with a survey of the modern USSR.
Price: $22.00