Philip's World History: People, Dates & Events

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Summary: Top Notch Historical Event, Timeline and People Reference
Review: This ambitious effort by a team of editors and researchers at George Philip, Limited, is exactly as advertised--a comprehensive and illustrated compendium of people, dates and events in world history from 15,000 B.C. to 1999 A.D.

Dates and events are listed chronologically by four geographical categories (Asia and Australasia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas) and two technical categories (Science and Technology, and Arts and Humanities). People in history are dealt with in a separate index, and include short biographical sketches of each. The index begins with Alvar Aalto, a French architect, and concludes with Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, a U.S. physicist. The book also has an extensive topical index.

[the price] may be a tad steep compared to other similar reference works, but its 318 pages are packed with information, easily read, and replete with pictures and map detail where necessary.