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Visual history of mankind - Book Three - Living in the world
1949 :: VISUAL HISTORY OF MANKIND :: BOOK
Third book of the Visual History of Mankind school series, prepared by Otto and Marie Neurath (directors of the Isotype Institute) and J. A. Lauwerys, with Lancelot Hogben as honorary editor. Its 20 charts cover early trade, the horse and the wheel, steppe migrations, travel by land and water, the spread of civilizations from 2500 B.C. to 1600, Spain and the Americas, the history and spread of writing and alphabets, the great religions, spreading knowledge, crop exchanges, Britain's food, power and landscape change, a century of inventions 1850-1940, malaria control, population growth since 1500, the great empires and the spread of the right to vote. Each chart has numbered questions for pupils, followed by activities and a reading list. Printed by Jarrold & Sons, Norwich.
